North Carolina moves to outlaw the psychoactive drug salvia
The North Carolina senate recently passed a bill outlawing the herbal drug Salvia, due to its potential for abuse. While any psychoactive drug brings cause for concern, there is a far more important issue that is not being addressed by current legislation. The numbers of North Carolina citizens seeking but not receiving treatment for drug addiction is rising sharply.
In data obtained from United States Department of Health and Human services the number of North Carolina citizens seeking but not receiving drug treatment nearly tripled between 2006 and 2007. This trend continues for those seeking alcohol treatment.
The report said that 192,000 people in north Carolina sought but did not receive drug treatment in 2006, and 895,000 people sought but did not receive treatment for alcohol abuse.
In 2007 the numbers had jumped to 537,000 people seeking and not receiving drug treatment and 1,329,000 seeking but not receiving alcohol treatment.
Most legislation across the country has been focused at fighting a “War on Drugs”. These numbers show there is a void to fill in drug and alcohol treatment. Money being diverted to law enforcement would be much better spent providing drug and alcohol treatment to those already affected and drug education to those in danger of becoming involved in illicit drug use.
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