If heroin were cheap and accessible to addicts, there would be no need to escape until the user were ready. It's so bizarre how laws against heroin get to be the Gallant against the Goofus of anti-pot laws when virtually all societal problems springing from heroin spring from the drug war.

There would be few to no deaths, suffering, or crime associated with heroin if it were cheap and accessible, and if addicts were under the care of a doctor or social worker. It would be a mild burden to public health services tasked with helping people quit, but far cheaper than tobacco smoking or alcoholism.