Kids moving to Rx drugs; what can we do to stop it?
A journalist asks: "Are prescription drugs replacing street drugs, especially marijuana, among youngsters? Why? What can society do to stop it?"
To an addict--and most of these youngsters have a predisposition to addiction--a drug is a drug is a drug. Yes, they seem to be replacing street drugs because they are so easily obtainable, but keeping the addict from his drug is as difficult as keeping flies off of horse dung. It ain't gonna happen. At least using legal drugs takes the gun battles out of the equation.
The question is what to do about addiction, which I have written on for almost a decade. We'll never stamp it out because almost everyone alive will experiment with at least one drug ...
