treatment for mentally ill and addicts

An article in Tuesday’s N&R opinion page reminded me of a topic I have been mauling over for some time now: drugs in America and what we have been doing wrong since President Nixon declared his War On Drugs in 1971. Yes, you youngsters out there, it certainly has been that long since our tax dollars been going to fighting the drug war all over the world and the battles just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, with no let up in sight. The article compared the deaths in the Iraqi War that the public seems so up in arms about with the huge numbers of deaths from drugs in our nation during the same time period and wonders just where our priorities are. Well, it is not priorities, it’s memory. The War on Drugs is old news to the point that when drugs are mentioned most people just shake their head, frown and go on to the next topic unless their family or someone they know is affected. Well people, don’t look now, but EVERYONE is affected.