My wife is a “Big sister” to a 13 year old girl in our town. The girl’s mother died of a heroine overdose last week.
There are a lot of dry counties around here. Ours is one of them. I recently learned that not only are drunk driving deaths and injuries per capita higher in dry counties, but so is illegal drug use. It’s the old conundrum: You push here, and it pops out there.
Massachusetts raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 when I was 18. The solution was to drive 40 miles one way to a neighboring state and visit a bar and then drive 40 miles back home after drinking. We had the same issue. Lots of drunk 18 year olds trying to drive home after the bars closed.