Save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

What caused 13,230 homicides in the USA last year alone? It is a problem costing states billions of dollars and needless deaths of thousands. The answer is not only drugs but the fact that we are not smart enough to handle them. Drug abuse can be a doctor over prescribing legal drugs and getting the patient addicted or illegal drugs such as an addicted heroin or cocaine user. Our problem is that we are not treating it for what it is, a medical problem. The first step in resolving this problem is to identify those addicted. Use our tax dollars to ask the addicted to identify themselves. Why would they do that? Read on! After we get a database maintained by a Government organization (like the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)), then we set control consisting of meetings (like the AAA) and free drugs as prescribed and controlled by the doctor. The DEA will pass the controlled amount drugs at no cost to the abuser. The amount of these drugs will be decreased until the abuser has control over his life. The idea is to get the abuser so that he is not so dependent on drugs and he has some control over his life and to drive down the cost of drugs on the street so that drug cartels will make nothing and at the same time prosecute them. This will make peddling drugs not feasible because without profit and even a penalty, it will not be feasible or particle. The demand for illegal drugs will be diminished so much the drug peddler will go out of business over time. It will tend to take the profit out of illegal drugs. Drug violence will also diminish over time. Non-violent prisoners jailed because of drugs will be freed on the condition that they participate in the controlled DEA drug program. Because drug addicts are no longer stealing to control their habit, a lot of crimes will also decrease and make it a little better for us all.

This simple idea saves billions of dollars and thousands of lives, so why not? Lets be smart and have not only a life but also a better life for everyone.