1.) Over 16,000 drug-related deaths and suicides in Massachusetts in last 10 years, high schools with drug rehab programs, crowded jails, an endless cycle of detox and rehabs–what can be done?

DrugDead.org is a product of the anger,  frustration, and sadness over the long-running addiction problem that has plagued most of this country for the last two generations or so.  Despite advances in technology, communication, etc. as well as an enormous expansion in the powers of law enforcement at governmental, state, and community levels,  drugs continue to pollute our communities and homes and kill us at unprecedented levels.  

2.) How is the Heroin and Fentanyl getting in?

Why have U.S. intelligence agencies been unable to track and intercept heroin shipments from Afghanistan or the Fentanyl coming from Mexico?

3.) Half-hearted “War on Drugs”

DrugDead.org is concerned that the so-called War on Drugs is not being waged effectively.  The drug problem is generating billions of dollars for lawyers, treatment centers, medical laboratories, medical/detox facilities, methadone clinics, Suboxone doctors, as well as funeral directors.   Drug addiction employs so many people that there is little motivation to put an end to the problem.

4.) Drug-sniffing police dogs are under-used!

 Many police departments with drug-sniffing dogs.  Unfortunately these dogs spend most of their day sleeping in the kennel.  Why?  Why aren’t they used until 3 weeks before Election Day? We should all know these dogs by name as they greet us as we drop off our kids at school.  Here again, the War on Drugs is a half-hearted effort!

Prescription pain medicines now kill more U.S. young people than car accidents.

5.)  Addiction is a neurological disorder

Neuroscience continues to uncover proof of identifiable, specific, and predictable changes in the brain caused by the various substances of abuse whether it be alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, marijuana, caffeine, or even medicines such as Xanax, Adderall, Oxycontin, etc.  Each of these substances can dull the human experience of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.  It may seem strange to say but addiction is actually a relationship–“My cigarette is my best friend”, “Heroin is all the love I’ll ever need”.

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