Pubdate: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 Source: Baltimore Sun (MD) Copyright: 2000 The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper. Contact: 501 N. Calvert Street P.0. Box 1377 Baltimore, MD 21278 Fax: (410) 315-8912 Website: http://www.sunspot.net/ Forum: http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/ultbb/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro Author: Charles Chambers Jr. ARE WE BECOMING INURED TO THE TOLL OF DRUG ABUSE? The horrible death of LaVenia Morrison received little attention in the city's other local news outlets ("Grip of drugs seen in woman's death," Sept. 15). But here is something to consider: As we as a society become more and more inured to the horrors and the devastation of cocaine, heroin and alcohol, we become more prone to accepting drug travails as just another aspect of everyday life. Charles Chambers Jr. Baltimore - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens