If drugs remain illegal - this is what you get (WARNING: Extremely graphic pic)

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158. Benadryl is intended to help you.

It doesn't get you addicted and clean out your bank account. It has a legitimate medical purpose. There's a difference between treating a medical condition and the pain that comes with it, and taking drugs just to get high. That's common sense, really.

That's why pain killers are regulated - so people don't abuse them, and so they don't get addicted. Pain killers help people deal with painful injuries and surgeries - there's a legitimate medical purpose there. What medical purpose does injecting yourself with heroin serve, even if (in some unrealistic situation), it were unadulterated and pure?

There's no actual purpose of self-injected heroin - people just take it for the opiate high. Painkillers, on the other hand, have a very specific purpose.

Your OP is anti-scientific bunk. It fails badly because, rather than saying how bad heroin is, you blame government regulation.