So you think the War on Poverty was a sound policy?
Get a clue, it's the prominant place urban African-Americans have given to narcotics in their lives.
The WOD was supposed to stop that, wasn't it? See any parallels?
Yeah, the sociopathologies of the urban African-American population have begun to improve. Used to be no one cared if they used and/or died from narcotics use. Now we do.