Where are the elders and adults? or council leaders?..?  and why would they even consider adding alcohol to the currently available (legal/illegal?) mix in our communities?  
Leaders, or people who claim to be leaders don`t see damage like that and just accept it.  
Alcohol is already a double hit on a town and community that is currently dry, with the agony it causes from either being readily available or smuggling, as well as draining income that families could use.    The affects of alcohol cannot be ignored while deaths from other reasons are seen as somehow more tragic. They are all tragic.  I understand the heroin is being given out free at first to get you hooked... and headed down a one-way road that more often than not ends in death.  I know it`s a free country but gee whiz is this the price we pay and is this the example we hold out to the rest of the world about America?  So it seems...