Very visceral and so true. It's always the relatives and friends who suffer in these abject situations. Never knew anyone who did heroin when I lived in London. Crystal Meth is the scourge here in the US--they've even pulled common cold medications off our supermarket shelves because kids over here were buying huge quantities and cooking up the stuff; we now have to take a product tag to the pharmacist counter in order to buy it. A brilliant post and hope its ripples endure a long time and change someone's life for the better.