I didn't comment on this when it was first posted because although I disagreed with its approach it seemed harmless enough not to get upset about. However, as a former drug counselor and probation officer with years of experience in dealing with criminals and addicts I saw that people were starting to confuse two issues. I also know that programs like DARE and the Just Say No campaign are dismal failures with a proven inability to lower use and abuse rates. In that light I doubt that this program had any real impact other than to rattle people. These problems do not come about from a lack of awareness of the consequences of using, they come about as the result of people with a built in propensity for addiction coming into contact with addictive substances.
Addiction is a disease, and a genetic disease at that.
The best thing we can do for people with this disease is direct them to treatment. Treatment helps them alter their behavior to not come in contact with those substances ever again. Doing this is one of the most difficult struggles anyone can face. AODA is a real problem, it hits all socio-economic groups. Even the Chasidim have people dying of AIDS from needle sharing.