How do you think we can eliminate the plague of drugs in our society?

Question

Today, my wife's son would have been 40 years old, if he had lived. He died of a heroin overdose at 26, drug pushers in California convinced him to give it a try, and he suffered for it until he died. She cries on his birthday every year, and suffers from the memory. What do you think we can do to eliminate this horrible menace of our society and stop the killing of innocent children?

Answer 1

Hopefully, put some drug dealers to death.

Answer 2

I am sorry, but we can not eliminate this plague. If suddenly everyone in the world that used drugs had the magic power to quit instantly with no harmful side effects, we would have a 100000 people that had never done drugs still go out and do them. In today's world, people do not learn self esteem, pride, respect, community, high moral values, etc. This doesn't seem to be changing much, and hence people will continue to seek drugs for comfort with themselves.