Good article but $20 won't get you a weekend worth of heroin unless maybe its your first time. That's not even enough for one shot for an addict. Its cheaper in phoenix than most places and I would get a half gram for $30 which was one shot for me. I needed at least a gram a day If I didn't want to get sick. I used two grams on an average day which is about $120 in AZ. When I lived in Colorado It was $120 a gram.

A major factor in the Heroin epidemic is the war in Afghanistan and the US military stabilizing the poppy industry. 10% of the world's heroin came from Afghanistan in 2001, by 2003 they were producing 90%. Heroin was readily available as soon as they tightened regulation on prescription pills driving their street price through the roof. I've met hundreds of junkies and every single one starting off using prescription pills. Almost every specialist in the recovery community agrees, legalize all drugs. end the violence. Save our communities.