HEROIN
and crack and soon METH coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
The crime rate encompasses mostly the above. And how its treated in the courts. While possession/sale/or being in the presence of are mostly felonies except for the last one, heroin is being treated like a non-issue by the courts. I think the court thinks that H use is a family problem (while it is) not a criminal matter. But the only effective deterent to its use is drying out in jail.
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