Not endorsing all of this, but a worthwhile read on the most significant change in the market for illicit drugs: the potential for fatal overdose has never been higher, shifting risks from slow and long-term deterioration to immediate death.

How to Think about the Drug Crisis
Almost nobody is taking America's drug crisis seriously. We talk about it plenty, but that talk rarely acknowledges what distinguishes today's drug epidemic from past ones: Those earlier crises inflicted many more or less equally weighty harms &mdash...
nationalaffairs.com
