Editor's note: This is the fourth and final in a four-part series of articles exploring the drug trade coming in or traveling through Windham County. This article looks at the various ways officials have tried to battle drug abuse over the years.

Over the last 50 years, Vermont, like the rest of the country, has tried various approaches to preventing drug abuse.

In the 1960s, it tried to scare kids into staying away from "reefer madness" and other drugs. That didn't really work.

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