The reality is that drugs serve a human purpose and every society, for as long as we can trace, has used drugs. Although the purposes have varied, from including facilitating religious rites and spiritual journeys, to delivering stamina and easing bodily pain as well as lubricating social discomforts. The use of drugs, however, can transcend their purpose to become a pleasure-seeking endeavor. In the same vein, people who turn to drugs do so with the transient relief from life’s rollercoaster that those drugs afford them. While this behavior is entirely human, one cannot ignore the adverse effects drug addiction has on the individual, family, career and the nation as a whole.