The Florida drug scene is seeing a return to heroin as the cheapest drug on the streets as users seek an alternative to the pill mills, which became too expensive as the state cracked down on them.
Reports the Miami Herald: Kevin Foley stood before a judge in Broward County’s drug court — fellow abusers sitting behind in him in the pews — talking about the fitful life of a recovering addict, the random drug tests, the counseling and what he hoped was his next, clean chapter.
Foley, 21, has been hooked on heroin for nearly two years, the Herald says. Before that, he was popping oxycodone and other prescription pills snapped up as Florida become a bustling marketplace of illegal pill mills. He turned to heroin after his drug of choice became too expensive. “I was chasing the next high,’’ says Foley, who landed in drug court after a heroin possession arrest in December. “I wanted to try it all.”
Read more on the return of heroin to FL streets here.
