Clearly drugs are a scourge, but only when they cost corporations in lost productivity due to a doped workforce or when they threaten to infest suburban communities where little rich kids might get hooked before their time. Obviously, a solution to the drug problem can't be redistributive lest the solution has worse impact on Bush's friends than the drugs themselves. Bush doesn't want to give money or services to the poor. He wants to keep desirable deprivations of the poor from hurting the rich. Drugs are a national disaster because people abuse them, deal them, and fight over them.
People abuse drugs because they suffer alienation, deprivation, abuse, and hopelessness.
People deal drugs because they don't have a better way to make a living. People fight over drugs to get a piece of the action. They only scavenge on the misery. It is caused by the poverty of unemployment. Medill n is a means of widespread distribution, not its cause.