If the heroine addict is eventually going to overdose anyway, why does he fight tooth and nail for his next fix?
Hard to say exactly how bad it will be. How much of the military can they convince that the collapse was all the fault of their "domestic terrorist" neighbors? As you know, they're planting those seeds already.Will regular people who know how to work with what they have suffer or will it be city elites who all of a sudden can't get the new Apple phone?
Barring civil war, the most affected regular people will be the ones in the outskirts of big cities, as the feral urban hordes roam into the suburbs and beyond looking for food and "stuff".