Police seize nearly a pound of heroin in raids in Roslindale, Mattapan, Dorchester

Not much of anything you said above is at all accurate. White folk have been dying from heroin addiction as long as people of any other color. I have tragedy of that sort in my own extended family going back four decades. The fact is, the recent sharp increase in heroin overdose is being seen across all racial lines.

What's different is that in the last half dozen years, many more middle class Americans are apparently coming to heroin through the use and then abuse of opioid medications. It's the increase in addiction among that wider economic class that's getting the attention. Are non-whites under-represented in the middle and upper socio-economic classes? You betcha. Are they historically under-treated for pain, meaning they have less exposure to opioid medication gateways? Strong evidence that's true. But even when you correct the stats to take those factors into account - they're still seeing tripe-digit percentage increases, same as the majority white population.

Undeniably there are differences in how the crisis is manifesting among different racial groups - and how it's being addressed. And we should be wary of treating people differently just because of the color of their skin. But the addiction crisis is real, and it's across-the-board much worse than its been, for nearly everyone.

(And for the record, I am totally down with going after the a-holes who smuggle this stuff in - although they're just rungs on the ladder like the local dealer. But you're showing racial bias yourself when you assume that your hypothetical corrupt ex-military pilot must be white - non-whites are slightly over-represented in the military at this point, even among the officer corps. So this member of the supply chain could easily be a black guy. Counter-bias is a poor countermeasure for bias.)