Heroin is an inanimate substance, just like glue or paint or meth.
Oklahoma (believe it or not) is the capitol of opiate addiction. Cycle goes like this:
Human gets prescribed opiates, or tries prescribed opiates from a party friend.
Human gets addicted to opiates.
Human "shops" for docs that will prescribe, may or may not get busted during this period.
Human runs out of money, finds heroin is the cheaper, more readily version of their now life-consuming addiction.
Over and over and over.
My son was an opiate addict. Not sure if he made it to heroin, but he probably did, doesn't matter. Results are the same. I hate it probably worse than you, but that dope didn't force itself on him. He chose, and it ruined/affected many, many lives. He would have been 28 on the 7th. My youngest and I stopped by the cemetery on our way to hunt that evening. Happy fucking birthday Andrew.