Folks, please learn and understand the social reasoning for the War On Drugs ( 1915—-on going). It was and is fundamentally steeped in white supremacy (racism) and social control. Over policing, jail and so a future of unemployment, broken homes and poverty cause addiction.

As for Native Americans, some tribes have substance issues, some don’t. But the root cause is white supremacy again: the wholesale slaughter of millions of native people coast to coast 1800–1900 and then the forced incarceration on reservations are the root causes. These are very good reasons for the mental and social conditions of later generations. But not CAUSED BY DRUGS! Caused by public policy…

I’ll add few more points on Native Americans like forcing native children into foster care, the vast corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, later taking away rights to reservations—1956, and NOT the least, cheating them out of mineral rights. The murdering of Osage Indians for oil rights in Oklahoma in 1920s comes to mind.

I advise we STOP BLAIMING THE DRUGS or Sub-groups, and recognise our —yes you and me—responsibilities for persistent public policies from 1776 to now, steeped in a white supremacy stew, are the root causes of addiction and it’s deleterious social effects. ( I do, of course, recognise the physical effects of alcohol, stimulants, cigarettes and short acting benzos, but that’s another discussion).