I can't go a week without reading something about the opioid crisis in this country. The U.S. has a drug problem, perhaps a bigger problem than ever, and I fear that even if this particular issue goes away, there always will be a problem with drugs. I've held a healthy mistrust of drugs for most of my life, even legal ones. I believe that in many cases you can get what you need without the use of pharmaceuticals. But I realize that everyone is made differently. I also grew up during a different time. At my high school, known drug users were outcasts, a select band of misfits that congregated after classes near the overhang where the buses parked to pick up kids. They looked different, they smelled different. I didn't need Nancy Reagan to tell me not to go over there. But, obviously, even in the 1980s, drug use ran rampant elsewhere. Cocaine was huge, I remember reading about it in Time magazine. And ballplayers were getting busted. I'd read that in Sports Ill...
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