Dealing With Druggies
New platitudes from the people who stopped the vote counting in Florida
In the meantime, those who worry about a U.S. drug problem might turn their attention to the 80 percent of drug-abuse deaths that occur in adults over the age of 25, many of which involve overdoses of prescription drugs, or alcohol in combination with other drugs. That’s not, of course, what Justice Scalia meant when he referred scornfully to a ”drug culture.“ ”If the U.S. has a drug culture,“ says Nadelmann, ”maybe it has something to do with the millions of people taking pharmaceuticals for everything from anxiety to shyness.“ And to the extent that high schools have a drug culture, ”maybe we ought to count the millions of kids on Ritalin.“ Or maybe someone ought to ask Scalia and Kennedy, while they‘re clarifying our Constitution for posterity, to tell us what exactly they mean by druggie.
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