 um you point out in your book that drug abuse was a problem in your area and you think it's gotten worse and why do you think it's so bad well yeah it was definitely something i saw growing up and i remember when you know addiction hit our family and i found out that mom was was addicted to prescription pain pills as we called them back then i just didn't understand it right i didn't understand why anybody would be addicted to pain pills it wasn't especially common this is back in the mid 90s