Heroin use is spreading exponentially. It’s cheap, available, and better than pain medicine. This we may know but pay little attention to, until it affects one of our own. Once your kid is addicted, it’s too late to consider alternatives Addiction is for life, and the outlook is not good, even with treatment This article is about coming to grips with your own situation once your kid is hooked, and what you can do to assuage the unalterable pain of knowing. Here are three things you can do: find out about drug accessibility in your community and educate others; work to change the prevalence of drugs in our culture, and the hardiest, turn your skills to tackle the root causes of this more-terrible-than-death scourge.