In America, Lessons Learned

摘要

His memories are addled, but the young member of Cocaine Anonymous can just about recall his formal drug education. When he was aboutll, he says, a police officer made several visits to his school to give warning of the dangers posed by illicit substances. Although he remembers thinking the cop was "something of a Dudley-Do-Right" he agreed with him that drugs were best avoided. He recalls no further lessons. By his late teens he was addicted to crack cocaine and methamphetamine.rnBy far the best way of reducing the harm that drugs can do is to convince people not to take them. Spraying crops, seizing shipments and arresting dealers can drive up prices and create temporary shortages. But it does not stop drug use.