We also talked about an analogy: If you shot someone in a hunting accident, should you never hunt again? I guess these questions are unanswerable, but they are worth asking, I think. For heroin kid, I'm going to ask them a lot of questions, and try to figure out their motivations. Heroin is not a drug to be taken lightly, and they are probably using other drugs already. I don't expect my kid to not do drugs because I disapprove. But I do hope that I can persuade them based on their concerns for their own well-being. I never met anyone that was doing heroin that was in a good place. I think all sorts of conversations would have to happen. Maybe take a trip with the kid to Alaska. The next day. Time to reevaluate and reconnect. As an aside: The legal BAC in Michigan is 0.08. It's actually quite easy to reach, and you needn't feel drunk. Two beers within an hour is enough for me. It's reckless and irresponsible to drive after drinking, but living in metro Detroit in particular, everything is far apart, there is no public transport, and taxis cannot be found on the streets. As a result, people make judgement calls, and sometimes they judge wrong. Just tonight we almost saw a pedestrian get hit by a driver that was probably sober. I have to imagine every year people get killed by people that aren't what anyone would call 'drunk', but yet they are over the legal limit. I wish there were some public transport in this town. It's weird that every night, bars close and people drive home, and a good portion of them are doing so illegally.