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Nicole Gaouette of the Los Angeles Times wrote on President Bush's attempt to restrict internet sales of prescription drugs, especially pain killers. Approximately 2,500 young people start abusing prescription drugs every day, while 70% of all prescription drug users obtain their drugs from the home medicine cabinet. The Bush administration’s drug strategy wants to use student drug testing, community outreach, and screening and prevention in attempts to cut youth drug use by 10%. Bush’s administration does report a drop in numbers of young people abusing drugs now compared to 6 years ago in 2002. Now approximately 860,000 fewer young people use, or rather misuse, prescription drugs. If you take the 2,500 young people that start every day and take that times 365 days a year you’ll get 912,500 young people a year. That’s a lot of drugs. If you take that number times 6 years you’ll get 5,475,000 young people. Now I know that the president didn’t actually calculate these terms himself, but maybe they should watch what they’re bragging about. Oh, we’re down 860,000 abusers in six years. They didn’t even mention how many there were in 2002 to start with. Considering we were only down 15% of just the newcomers, I wouldn’t be bragging just yet. How can politicians say that we’re going to cut down on drugs, but they allow internet sales of prescription drugs to almost anyone? Any half-witted 13 year old kid can buy some hydrocodone and down them like candy. Hopefully the Senate sees how the President hasn’t really done much and realize that drug use period is ruining our schools, our jobs, and our loved ones.