When reading the article, “Life Sentence” by Christopher Shea, it came to my attention that drugs are like a virus and if we can’t control it, it will affect many people. This virus has already affected poor communities and it will continue to spread to other communities. The war on drugs must end because drugs are tearing up families apart and sometimes drugs could also take away the life of the person. I loved how the government passed the second chance acted, to give $192 million for drug counseling, family counseling and much more. The poor communities are most likely to do drugs and this act could prevent those communities from doing drugs. Parents who do drugs have a higher chance of seeing their own kids doing drugs. Drug addicts
