The Deputy Drug Czar was in Hollister this week. This recalled
one of my fixed observations. We live in a permissive drug culture.
From the time we are born, we are subjected to legal drugs. First
from the doctors and then from the media for over the counter ones.
Is it any wonder that people turn to illegal drugs? They promise
anything and everything.
The Deputy Drug Czar was in Hollister this week. This recalled one of my fixed observations. We live in a permissive drug culture. From the time we are born, we are subjected to legal drugs. First from the doctors and then from the media for over the counter ones. Is it any wonder that people turn to illegal drugs? They promise anything and everything.
Years ago, I was in Army Flight School. We were admonished not to take any drug whatsoever unless prescribed by a flight surgeon. I followed this faithfully, but they neglected to mention alcohol. So over the years there has been that one exception. I never even took aspirin or vitamins. The over-the-counter drug industry would have died if others had emulated me. I now take vitamins, baby aspirin and calcium upon the advice of my physician. Maybe one of these days I will give up alcohol. This week I will be 73 and consider myself healthy. Maybe from drug abstinence, including some recommended by physicians. If all of us would stop buying legal drugs, except as prescribed by a physician (and then with a grain of salt), I believe much of the illegal drug culture would diminish.
John B. Fitch,
Hollister
