Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.

Essentially, if you don't smoke cigarettes, you won't smoke marijuana, ... And if you don't smoke marijuana, use inhalants or abuse alcohol as an adolescent, you're not going to have an addictive problem later on in life.

The nation working together has made substantial progress in confronting illegal drug abuse and drug trafficking,

Serious challenges remain. Heroin abuse is climbing back, and many kids think heroin is safe because it can now be sorted or smoked,

A giant problem for America. A small number of us, a little more than 1% of the American population addicted to illegal drugs, but taking a 35 billion dollar bite out of the health care system. Responsible for a third of all the AIDS in America and so on. It's just a tremendous nightmare. That problem needs to be addressed.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.