It's a problem, but it's not as big a problem as some other things. But the way people talk about it, you'd think the whole country is going into the toilet on drugs. There were areas of this that were close to home. He had an overdose. I would like to blame the high school, in a way, more than the drugs.
Drugs is a symptom that something is wrong.
While Soderbergh and his cast are glad that Traffic is getting people to talk about society's drug problems, they hope audiences will enjoy it as a movie first.