Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addicts in the U.S
This is a yellow journalism headline. Hearst would be proud.<p>As I&#x27;ve remarked before, the war on drugs and getting tough on crime is not working out too well for us, so it&#x27;s time to change our plan.<p>I don&#x27;t advocate off the shelf heroin or any of the cluster of ideas that suggest that.  I do advocate focusing on the funnel that leads to addiction, homelessness, and death.  Part of that is significantly amping up mental healthcare spending; part of that is having legally controlled drugs available in pharmacies for reasonable prices; part of that is supporting better schools (giving a window into a better world, and a way to climb through); part of that is supporting jobs programs.  All of those relate in one way or another to the problem, some years and years earlier in the funnel.<p>No one is born choosing to be an addict in their later life; a series of choices and pressures put them there. The pressures from society can be changed, which shapes the set of choices visible.