# 23

In conflict with her own message, a former heroin abuser reports that she emphasizes "choices" with the abusers she counsels, however, she blames the choice her adult daughter made - which led to her death - on "drug policy."

"Drug policy is the reason people are dying."

Not the choices to self-administer made by adults...even for their very first instance itself.

Not the substance, which many parents elect to cast the blame...in this story, we read of mom's prior heroin abuse, then we read that she blames policy while extolling the antidote drug.  Clearly, she has moved along the continuum of substance abuse and is using the starting point which is far down the line from "the-day-before-addiction."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/27/health/mom-heroin-overdose/index.html