Today, I heard Anchorage middle school students talking about Mexican black tar heroin.  It will be in rural AND urban Alaska as long as there is a pipeline to supply it, and a marketing mechanism to promote it.  

You think your kid is exempt from this?  Me and my best friends were stupid enough to smoke "Brown Mexican Junk" back in the mid-1970's.  Thankfully, we never wanted to repeat the experience.  It was not a laid-back, feel good experience.  I honestly wondered for a while if I was no longer among the living.

If you think your kids won't do what my friends and I did, you are delusional.  Tune in and really listen to the "chatter".  Vet your child's friends.  If you don't listen, you don't have the slightest idea.