The largest recent increase in opioid abuse is directly related to the pharmaceutical industry...prescription drugs.  Yet one of the solutions in Seattle is to offer safe shoot-up locations...for the addicts who have moved on to harder drugs after their scrips ran out.  Getting down to brass tacks, Whidbey is soon to be on the same trend.  It's a pattern that's easy to discern.

We're feeding the drug habits of addicts one schedule at a time.  It's not that hard to see.  When you wholly classify addiction as a disease that cannot be cured, only treated, then we have given up.

A disease cannot be "given up" by going to meetings, meditation, and sheriff task forces with gentle talk.