The Times Argus staff deserves great thanks for its extremely important, timely and well-written series on the drug epidemic and its presence in central Vermont. I would like, however, to emphasize several points that could have been made more clearly.

First, it is critical that people, especially our young people, realize that today's heroin is so pure that you can become physically addicted to it after using it only once or twice. There is simply no such thing as experimenting with heroin.

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