War on Drugs

Lengthy DDN article about heroin abuse in Ohio fails to mention war in Afghanistan as the cause of the increased heroin supply.

70 million Americans use mind-altering drugs.

"We discover that not only has the traditional distinction between illegal “street drugs” and legal “therapeutic prescription drugs” become so blurred as to be almost nonexistent, but between America’s twin drug epidemics – one illegal, the other legal – well over 70 million Americans are using mind-altering drugs. And that number doesn’t include abusers of alcohol, which adds an additional 60 million Americans. So we’re really talking about 130 million strung-out Americans."

I bet 90 percent of problems caused by drug use is from legally proscribed drugs.