Pounds of heroin were confiscated. It won’t make any difference in the supply.
People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers.
According to Dr. Lonny Shavelson 70% of female heroin users were sexually molested in childhood. – So the pain is PTSD.
When the pain goes away (enough) people stop using.
In addition PTSD is genetic. To activate it you need trauma. About 20% of the population has the genetics. About half those get enough trauma to activate it. Most people have zero risk of “addiction”. Not very scary is it?