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 airbase housed within its borders, Whiteingfield,

which is one of the US 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 pests, 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 Tines graduated from Milton High School, along

with professional golfers Heath Sloughcom 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'm not vilifying Milton alone in this issue.

The entire first judicial circuit, which includes Iskambia, Oculous, Walton, and the entirety

of Milton 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 Presca's

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