do effect all of society, not just drug users. It effects the woman who has her purse snatched, the guy who has been robbed at the ATM, the prostitute looking for her next trick, the guy shot dead for his wallet, and all the victims families effected by these crimes. It effects every taxpayer for the arrest, prosecution and incarceration of users desperate enough to commit these criminal acts. I don't think that legalization of these hard drugs will solve the problem. It may lessen it somewhat. I do think we have to stop glorifying the high life with music and movies. That may help too. I still think the most powerful and most abused drug of all, alcohol, is often overlooked because it is legal. Thousands are killed each year on the roads and in our hospitals from alcohol related illnesses, and yet our society will defends its use, at any cost, and I don't think its the social drinkers that care. This is a tough one. Maybe, if we're still around the next hundred years, science will have invented the "magic pill" which will stop all addiction.