Marion Barry's son dies of an overdose

[Igel]

32. No, a predisposition for addition is genetic.

Don't get hooked, you're not addicted.

Make the substance abundant and what you've done is set up a lot of people for pressure--cultural pressure--to try the substance and run a very real risk of addiction. I've known people in AA and often they feel pressure to drink, but really mustn't. Then their kids feel pressured to drink, and that's probably a mistake. (Not necessarily, because like everything else genetic there are some nice laws of inheritance that govern this.)

As for 60 Minutes, consider the source. (1) If they only had black or Latinos, they'd have been panned. (2) If only low income whites, well, just meh. (3) For ratings and to get viewers watching, they have to be "like them." That's what we're told all the time, right--we're only interested in role models and people that look like us? So the really important bit has to be white middle-class.