Drug abuse in the News

TWO FACTS ABOUT ILLICIT DRUGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: (1) One country with only five percent (5%) of the world’s population buys and consumes fully sixty percent (60%) of the entire world’s supply of illicit drugs. (2) That one country is the United States. Below are just a very few of literally thousands of the every single day drug-abuse related stories affecting and infecting our lives and families, our communities, and the very fabric of our American Society. The wide-spread use of illicit drugs and the rampant abuse of prescription drugs is killing Moms and Dads. It’s killing our children, who are our future. Just take a look:

FOX 54 HealthWatch Preventing Underage Drinking
WTVM 9 Tue, 21 Sep 2004 7:17 PM PDT
The statistics are amazing. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins around age 13. The Centers for Disease Control says 30% of high school students admit to riding in a car with a drinking driver.

Doctors, Patients, Latest Drug War Casualties
Fox News Wed, 22 Sep 2004 2:37 PM PDT
It is uncomfortable to hear Dr. Frank Fisher speak. His eyes are usually glassed over, seemingly on the verge of tears. Above them rests a sweeping coif of white hair; below, a thick, well-manicured white beard.

Date-rape cigarettes are a threat! : HTTabloid.com
Hindustan Times Wed, 22 Sep 2004 1:48 PM PDT
A deadly new weapon being used for date-rape is hitting the headlines these days, as an unfortunate woman in Swansea, Glamorgan, found much to her distress recently.

Meth Production Reaches Epidemic Levels On The West Coast—WASHINGTON POST

Another Side of Drug War: Prescription Fraud is Very Costly to Society—TIMES-UNION

Thieves Rob Thirty-Seven Pharmacies for Their Supply of OxyContin—CNN

Please- take a personal stand against this national human travesty of increasingly overwhelming proportion. YOU can help tremendously in at least three ways. (1) YOU can say “No!” to drugs personally. (2) YOU can philosophically and politically support the proven effectiveness of drug abuse-prevention testing programs in your own workplace and in your own children’s middle school or high school. (3) YOU can philosophically and politically support the proven effectiveness of professional counseling and other treatment programs for those who abuse drugs and are unable stop without such care. Please – while “we” are still the majority – join those of us who ARE concerned enough to do something about it, and do your part to help win The War on Drugs in America. Sadly, America is the biggest drug battleground in the world.