We need it this morning. Dr. Louis Pagliaro, a substance abuse expert at the University of Alberta, says this hideous drug is being used every day in every high school in Edmonton. Of course it is. Just like it's being used by society as a whole. Getting stoned and going to school is nothing new.
Crack babies are nothing new.
Reporter David Carrigg, whose stories appear on this page and on page 49, paints a bleak picture. Once associated with the slums and the dregs of society, crack use is now widespread. There's not a corner in the city you can't buy crack. You don't slay the beast by cutting off its toe. The buyers are actually the victims, not the problem.