The article is about oxycontin, a legal drug. It makes no reference to illegal drugs at all. If the "normal community" is people like you, I'm staying wierd, thank you very much.
The war on drugs is preventing many Americans from getting desperately needed pain medicine.
This was more about Doctors passing out Hillbilly Heroin to people who are not that sick and perhaps having the law putting pressure on them not to do that.