The U.S. government made drugs illegal in 1914. The government deemed Americans too dumb to educate themselves and their children about proper and improper drugs and drug use, and too weak-willed to resist using them properly or improperly. Instead, it simply banned them. What do we read 103 years later? In Louisville, we read that overdose calls spiked recently. This is not unusual: “Nationwide, the spike in opioid overdoses is blamed on heroin and fentanyl, a pain reliever often given to cancer patients. Death rates from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, increased 72.2% from 2014 to 2015, the US Centers for … Continue reading Drugs in Louisville and Nearby Crawford County, Indiana