D is for death,
R is for rotten,
U is for under,
G is for ground
S is for stopping
The plague of drugs has invaded our country for over one hundred years. In the past century our citizens were hooked on drugs also. Chinese immigrants came to California in the 1850s to work in gold mines and then on the railroads, they brought opium smoking with them. IThe "sporting" classes--gamblers, prostitutes, actors--began to join them.
As more Americans became addicted, women and young people were using. Women, mothers with a long days work for miserable pay, began drugging themselves at night and their children to get a good night sleep. Children of users became like zombies and of ill health. Opium use spread east, until by the 1890s, opium dens were commonplace in American life. Concern grew over some citizens watching this epidemic grow, so cities and then states began passing anti-drug laws.
At a time when medicine was relatively primitive, doctors and patients gratefully embraced the array of opiates like morphine, laudanum (alcohol suffused with opium), paregoric (alcohol, opium, and camphor), and codeine. These drugs were easily obtained, and there was great enthusiasm and casual use. The widespread adoption of the hypodermic syringe made for faster, more potent delivery of morphine.
Today we are no better than one hundred years ago. Drugs are rampant, they can be bought any where and every where. It is a sick, sick society of drugs, crimes fo pay for drugs and mind waster women, men and young people. The only people who benefit from drugs are the peddlers and the suppliers. A wasted generation of young people is a very sad thing to watch.
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