Milton, Florida, is a little dot in Santa Rosa County, with a population somewhere around 10,000.

The town is most well known for the naval air base housed within its borders, Whiting Field,

which is one of the U.S. Navy's two primary pilot training bases.

However, for others, Milton is known for a few other things, most notably its climate, which

earned the town the 19th century nickname of Helltown because of its incurable humidity

and rash of living pest, like mosquitoes.

Some even called it scratch ankle because of the briar patches that grew below knee level along the river

creeks and swamp beds. Milton is also known for a surprising amount of professional athletes

that graduated from the town's school district in the 1990s and early 2000s. Football players

Cortland Finnegan and Lawrence Tynes graduated from Milton High School,

along with professional golfers Heath Slocum and Boo Weekly.

Casper Van Dean, the actor most notable for being the lead in the feature film adaptation of Starship Troopers,

also lived in Milton for a period of time.

However, the thing that Milton has become known for

in recent years is a rising population that is addicted to serious drugs. Now, for the record,

I am not vilifying Milton alone in this issue. The entire First Judicial Circuit, which includes

Iscambia, Ocaluus, Walton, and the entirety of Milton's Santa Rosa

County, has seen a dramatic increase of drug use, which has led to some fatal results.

Florida alone saw less than 100 heroin-related deaths in 2010 and 2011.

By 2014, that number had increased to over 447, according to the Santa Rosa Press Gazette.

And that number continued to rise through 2016, with the death of 779 people.

Many attribute this to the addition of the drug fentanyl to many heroin concoctions,

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