[wbill]

Well, I hate to sound jaded, but I've personally heard this spiel about heroin, cocaine, crack, "bath salts", synthetic pot, and meth.

Before my time, it was pot, heroin, and alcohol...that I know of. I'm sure that there have been others.

Each was an epidemic, destined to destroy all of society. And yet, here we still are.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Each was an epidemic, destined to destroy all of society. And yet, here we still are."

Couple of points, the first is all of the ones you mentioned were usually a choice. A lot of the opiod abuse starts off by getting addicted to legal prescription drugs. This is what happened to Rush Limbaugh.

Second, I don't remember all of the overdoses and deaths. Back then, they didn't have all emergency workers with narcan in their vehicles to prevent it. I think it's worse now.

[rellimpank]

—ditto—heard it for sixty years-—

[Alberta's Child]

In terms of political and moral principles, it’s very hard to generate a lot of public interest in addressing an “epidemic” that is largely based in self-destructive behavior.