- What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Consider the case of Laramie, Wyoming. Five years ago, it had no heroin problem whatsoever. Now there's a bustling trade. How does this happen? How does heroin become a business? Well, like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream
I read this, and it's very interesting. Drug addiction is much more subtle than one would expect. I have had friends who "sell" just so they could use "for free," which isn't too far from the truth. Street level drugs are highly marked up. That's really all it takes: "Oh, i'll just try it once, blah blah" then, "OH, this stuff is GREAT! Let me buy some more". Then "Ok, this isn't enough, I need to buy a little more just so it lasts me." The sequence of rationalization is almost endless. Eventually it gets to the point where you're using so much (and possibly selling to buy even more) that by this point you've lost yourself. You've forgotten how you started, you've forgotten the reason you're selling in the first place... and you've potentially made enemies. Getting out of the life isn't easy, especially when much of your social life revolves around drugs.