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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Agree with everything except this. The United States is a pretty strong counterpoint...they have somewhat more effectively swept the problem under the rug. But Americans seem to simply accept that there are places you don't go at night and places you don't go ever.
We are and will continue to transition more and more to that line of thinking, and perhaps employ more security guards to sweep the problem away from our eyes.
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Americans never swept anything under the rug, unless you want to consider the "rug" the other side of the tracks, wrong side of town, etc.
The reason the drug epidemic has come to the forefront of broader social concern is because the users have proliferated and spilled out into "normal" parts of town. This is very much a case of "out of sight, out of mind" no longer being the case, and that's the problem.