Comment by ericmay

I can find a bunch of articles summarizing the West Coast as a cesspool of heroin, homelessness, and opioid use as well.

https://www.city-journal.org/opiods-homelessness-west-coast

https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-c...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2019-12-26/...

Maybe California is a cesspool too?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/as-opioid-ep...

Or maybe Seattle?