Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse .
of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today's world, threatening the security and freedom of whole .
nations. Politicians, health experts and much of the general public feel that no issue is more important than drug abuse. America's other pressing social .
problems- disease, poverty, child abuse and neglect, and corruption- often have a common element; that is drug abuse. The use of illegal drugs such as cocaine, .
crack, heroin and marijuana cause extensive harm to the body and brain. Yet, even after knowing this many people want illegal drugs to be legalized in every .
aspect. The last thing we need is a policy that makes widely available substances that impair memory, concentration and attention span; why in God's .
name foster the uses of drugs that make you stupid? The campaign for drug legalization is morally disgusting.The number of people who are addicted to .
illegal drugs or are users of these drugs is quite shocking. Drug abuse is clearly an injurious and sometimes fatal problem. The leaders of the .
international economic summit in Paris in July 1989 concluded that the devastating proportions of the drug problem calls for decisive action. .
On September 5, 1989, President Bush called upon the United States to join in an all-out fight against drugs. The United States Congress reports an estimated 25 .
to 30 million addicts of illegal drugs worldwide. Not all users are addicts, but some of the 26 million regular users of illegal drugs in the United States are .
addicted. Reports of child abuse to New York social services tripled between 1986 and 1988 and most of the cases involved drug abuse. Approximately 35 .
percent of the inmates of state prison were under the influence of illegal drugs at the time they committed the crimes for which they are incarcerated.
