80 percent of adolescents in the United States try drugs, but only 10 percent become addicted

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5. after 40 years of drug war drugs are more accessible and ubiquitous than ever, & i believe a

good many of those addicted are addicted because there's nothing better for them out there and they're sunk into despair.

that's the way it is in my town, anyway. just the hoops you have to jump through to wind up with nothing better than an unstable shit job in the chicken processing plant or unstable govt subsidized work at a 'non-profit'. one mishap -- your car breaking down -- and you're back to square one; there's just not enough money in it to get past square one unless you're lucky or have connections.