Illegal drugs are never a good thing. Chemical substances that ravage the central nervous system, altering brain function, perception, behavior, consciousness, and mood. Drugs are addictive; expensive; damaging; and worst of all they’re an epidemic in the United States and all over the world as people seep infinitely into an altered state of mind from which they may never recover.

Drugs are things as mundane as coffee, nicotine, and alcohol but increase in severity from things like cannabis to more serious peyote, cocaine, mushrooms, LSD, MSMA (ecstasy) morphine and heroine among many, many others. Many drugs have street names which are derivatives of one of the above listed; many are an even more dangerous Molotov cocktail of a combination of more than one of these drugs; leading to higher highs but an even harder crash and sometimes, no crash until death.

Drug use dates back thousands of years. Not surprisingly, it may have even been a case of “monkey see, monkey do,” as there are animals which consume different drugs, leading to an intoxication and evidence that humans picked this up from animals. Leave it to the caveman to ruin civilization for everyone.

Prescription drugs are another abused type of drug that are readily available on the black market. That market has opened up great and wide with the advent and anonymity of the internet making the drug trade seamless and totally faceless.

Drug information is available from your local and state agencies; talk to your local police officers about literature if you’re a concerned citizen; better yet, go on the internet and you’ll be fast able to download all the proper information that you’re looking for.

Drug stores with dishonest employees are part of the problem with drug abuse. But they certainly don’t hold all the responsibility. Drug facts need to be told, drug stories need to be repeated, and there should be a conscious effort by every member of his community to stop this now!

Drug addiction is a very real problem in this country; identifying the problem; getting the users treatment and assistance is the only way to solve the crisis. Make no mistake; there should be harsh penalties! But the drug addiction problem won’t just go away if we turn the light out or turn our backs. We’ll need full cooperation from local and state agencies; a readiness task force to find and eradicate the supplier at its source, and the determination to keep at it until this fire that’s burning has been tamped out.