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Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust in New York City on Sept. 23, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
During the Vietnam War, 15 percent of U.S. servicemen became addicted to heroin, which extrapolates to well over 100,000 Americans. It was truly catastrophic.
If there were ever a time for America to face up to the drug problem, in a deeply honest way, this was it.
