Why a Headline Only if It Affects ‘suburban’ America? When if in ‘urban,’ They Are Just ‘Drug Addicts’?

`~and so government turned the other cheek, ignoring domestic problems in favor of an unwinnable war on land not our own. Drugs. Not something that will go away with the wave of a wand.
Eight years.
Hundreds of billions ~~ gone ~~and no urgency attached to domestic concerns

New York Times May 31, 2009
GROVE CITY, Ohio — For five hours, Dana Smith huddled stunned and bewildered in her suburban living room while the body of her son Arthur Eisel IV, 31, lay slumped in an upstairs bathroom, next to a hypodermic needle.
Family and friends streamed in. Detectives scurried about. For Mrs. Smith, the cold realization set in that her oldest son Artie — quiet, shy, car enthusiast, football and softball fanatic — was dead of a heroin overdose.
The death was the end of a particular horror for Mrs. Smith, whose two other children, Mr. Eisel’s younger brothers, also fell into heroin addiction “like dominoes,” she said, and still struggle with it.
To the federal government, which prosecuted the heroin dealers for Mr. Eisel’s death, it was a stark illustration of how Mexican drug cartels have pushed heroin sales beyond major cities into America’s suburban and rural byways, some of which had seen little heroin before.
In Ohio, for instance, heroin-related deaths spread into 18 new counties from 2004 to 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available. Their numbers rose to 546 in that period, from 376 for 2000 to 2003.
Federal officials now consider the cartels the greatest organized crime threat to the United States. Officials say the groups are taking over heroin distribution from Colombians and Dominicans and making new inroads across the country, pushing a powerful form of heroin grown and processed in Mexico known as “black tar” for its dark color and sticky texture.
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Except it’s been going on for a very long time, dcades really. But when in the minority communities, it was just ‘line them up, lock them up’ and throw away the key.
No offers of help or rehab. That was just for the sburbanites who ‘made a mistake’.
Well, now we admit that it makes little difference whether the deals go down on some seedy street corrner in the ‘hood’ or behind the doors in some half million dollar home.

Addicts are forever and may very well live next door to you.

it looks as though
“just say no” never really
“trickled down” ~~
for the phony first poster, we all know that you are a user.