There&#x27;s also been a lot of problems with heroin abuse in my hometown in rural Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a steel town outside of Pittsburgh.<p>I am not sure what the solution is, but the War on Drugs approach of criminalization needs to be replaced with rehabilitation. I&#x27;ve seen my friends&#x27; and high school classmates&#x27; lives get ruined by opioids (and these are good people with tremendous potential whose environment failed them), and I don&#x27;t think throwing them behind bars is a solution.