Louisiana has had a drug problem for a while, but recent statistics from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that in the past month more than 46 percent of the Louisiana population aged 12 or older drank alcohol, including 19 percent of 12 – 17 year olds, and nearly 16 percent of high school students smoked marijuana. Louisiana drug rehab facilities were never more needed than they are now.

According to an article in Town Talk, Louisiana’s problems stem from medical and psychological conditions, inter-generational poverty and systemic breakdowns of families, communities and other traditional safety nets.

The article also says that young people should have the self-control and self-respect needed to help them make the right decisions – which don’t include alcohol and drug abuse – and that they need help with that. Agreed.

But where are they going to get that help when they’re surrounded by adults with the same problems? If someone doesn’t get the parents into a successful drug rehab program, the kids are on their own. A very sad state of affairs.

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