Americans and Drug Addiction

A sociological explanation as to why there is so little public concern.

We don’t care much about drug addiction. Pew published a report recently finding that “the share of Americans who see drug addiction as a ‘major problem’ in their community has declined in recent years, even as drug overdose deaths in the United States have risen sharply.” 

The report goes on to say that while drug overdoses have increased from 70,000 in…