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Originally Posted by rotten42
Access and the sheer power of the drugs available these days makes this problem so much greater than it ever has been. The problem from a public apathy point of view is people aren't going to give a shit unless it hits them directly at home. The social conscious we had 20-30 years ago was so much greater than it is today. People acted. Today people text/tweet and post vigorously about how concerned they are but don;' actually act in any sort of meaningful way.
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What do you expect people to do about it?
It's hardly a secret that street drugs are bad news, and governments pour untold millions into treatment and prevention. Yet the problem lingers. It's clearly hard to stop someone with self-destructive impulses.