n Earth today, drugs are very, very big business. We live in a society where human values are routinely shunted aside for the economic concerns connected with drugs, both legal and illegal. The cost in crime, in trying to control the problem, in inefficiency, the cost simply in lives lived under the numbing influence of drugs, cannot be calculated. For to do that, one would have to put a price on life itself.

The decline in mental alertness and ethical fiber in society is as glaring as the headlines trumpeting the devastating physiological effects of drugs. “The drug scene is planet wide,” concluded Mr. Hubbard. “It is swimming in blood and human misery.”

So, what price the headache remedies, the soporifics, the pain relievers, the antidepressants that fill our medicine cabinets?

What price the amphetamines which turn our schoolchildren, into drug-dependent people? What price the narcotics that are used to negate a painful existence? What price the recreational drugs that provide escape from the boredom of affluence? What price these shackles that keep from us the sensations and joys of living itself?

An insidious drug war rages in our communities and across the entire world. Despite the odds, it is a war we must win.

Long before the drug problem became an international crisis, L. Ron Hubbard recognized that people needed to be freed from the grip of their deadly effects and developed the technology to accomplish exactly that. Using these methods, Scientologists today are bringing actively, persistently and effectively change, salvaging lives and making real progress resolving the drug problem.