In yesterday’s La Crosse Tribune they had an informative story on Drugs, by the numbers. Alarming numbers. For example, 2,944 were hospitalized at Gundersen for addiction or abuse, that Tri-State Ambulance and the La Crosse firefighters administered Narcan to 186 people last year. The article said that in La Crosse County 25 people died of overdose, and that of the high school students surveyed that 1.5 % have taken meth in the past month and that 1.3% have used heroin at least once. These numbers are real and the problem is not going away. In the past month, there has been a couple of shootings in La Crosse, there have been robberies and home invasions. When I moved to La Crosse in 1992 sure there were drugs but the biggest problem facing our future then was alcohol and alcohol abuse. Now we still have people over consuming and now taking dangerous drugs as well. How can we stop it?
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