Word: demand
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More prisons and more judges are urgently needed. But many authorities fear that the maximum conceivable increase would not do much good; without some reduction in drug demand, the problem will simply remain too big. Says Carlton Turner, drug adviser to Ronald Reagan: "If this initiative of the President's becomes (only) a law-enforcement initiative, it's dead...
Drug addicts are sick people who need treatment. With that statement there is hardly any quarrel. But what kind of treatment, and who will provide it? The answer to the second question, at least, is only too clear: nobody is providing enough treatment to come near meeting the demand, let alone the need...
Indeed, the flurry of activity and proposals in the past few months threatens to obscure the most basic fact about drug use in America: border patrols, police raids and even random urinalysis are unlikely to have a lasting impact as long as there remains a demand for drugs and a general social tolerance of their use. A true change can come only if Americans are willing to say clearly -- to their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result...
...Administration has nearly doubled its drug-enforcement budget, from $853 million in 1982 to $1.5 billion this year, but has neglected efforts to reduce the demand for drugs. The federal budget for drug treatment and prevention has actually declined, from $200 million in 1982 to $126 million this year. Somewhat belatedly Reagan seems to have realized that the flow of drugs will abate only when the U.S. curbs its persistent craving. What since 1984 had been the personal cause of First Lady Nancy Reagan -- getting young people to "Just Say No" to drugs -- finally became a top item...
...will always be able, and often willing, to pursue their desired indulgences, however illicit. A society filled with wealth and the ability to consume, along with failure and despair, provides a ripe market for the world's drug supply, which will always exist as long as there is the demand for it. Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick...