My mother looked rotten, it scared me. Her face was gray and sweating, and the shadows under her eyes were like bruises. She was an addict." - -- A scene from the movie and book, "Let No Man Write My Epitaph," by Willard Francis Motley, 1958. A truly fictionalized account of drug addiction? No ... not then, and not now. Americans spent $64 billion on illegal drugs last year: $36 billion on cocaine; $10 billion on heroin; $5.4 billion on methamphetamine and more than $11 billion on marijuana. [continues 846 words]
