The war on drugs is I believe the longest war in the history of mankind. I also think it is one of the most important topics today. I personally do not see an end that is going to come anytime soon because there is no way that we can stop the use of it. The book I read was called Drugs In America by Robert Emmet Long. This book might be a little out of date but it still touches bases with most all of the same problems our society faces today. This book was published in New York in 1993. But was written in the 1980's and early 90's. When drugs started to become a very wildly known problem. Mr. Long was a very worried author during this time. He was watching what had been happening in the war against drugs. The author did some of his own research and he discovered out were most of all the drugs in this world have been coming from. He traveled all over the world and found out that 75% of the cocaine in the United States comes from a valley in South America that has any area of 100 miles. In this book there are a few of the Authors personal belief that will stop the war on drugs. The author believes that one option is provide treatment, by that he means provide more medical help for addicts. Such as train more people to run anonymous meetings. Or allow the use of local laws to allow courts to commit hard-core addicts to treatment. He also thought that the government can convert surplus military bases to drug treatment sites. He also believe that they need to Expand research on medical treatments for addiction. Another option that was mentioned is prevention. Mr. Long believes that we can do more to teach children that drugs are very bad. Do more to spot drug use early, such as ideal check ups from the doctor. He thinks that we should get up in a more powerful place and preach the what happens with the use of drugs. Like more ads on television and radio. Companies forced to join the drug war is
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