Very sorry for you loss
Cant comment on Heroin, never tried it and dont ever intend to………. but on addiction, from what I understand it begins with escapism, people who are dissatisfied with their lives and seek short term satisfaction from drugs that make them forget their problems for a while ( Please dont misunderstand this, it doesnt mean they dont love their families, they can love them very much ), but what starts as a brief escapes from the reality of problems with relationships, money, illness, personal loss, lack of prospects, not being able to achieve dreams etc whatever stresses or pressures they might be under turns into an addiction where instead of taking a drug to briefly feel good and forget their problems they have to take that drug more and more just to feel normal.
It’s very easy to judge addicts, call them selfish, weak or lacking the will power to do whats right, I certainly judged the alcoholics in my family that way when I was younger………… but as you get older you realise things are a lot more complicated than simple right & wrong.
Most difficult thing must be knowing when to support someone who is an addict, and when you need to cut them off for the benefit of children
