I ordinarily do not respond to letters to the editor, however I feel the need to set the record straight on this one.

On June 6, the Northwest Arkansas Times printed a letter from Georgia Lance of Elkins, who indicated what she understood from a newspaper article in which the county judge and myself reported as responding differently to the question of what to do about the methamphetamine problem in our area.

Ms. Lance's letter said that I was a "drug warrior" and the judg ge was more contemporary with his approach to the problem, in which he indicated what we need is to look at the root of the problem or why we as a society feel the need to alter our personality with drugs.

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