Peterson Traffic

The movie Traffic is a perfect depiction of the war on drugs and how it effects people socially, politically, and individually. I also believe there are many examples that prove that the war on drugs will never be won. Drugs are too prevalent and provide satisfaction to their users and distributers which causes the whole cycle to continue. I believe that individually one can control their addiction and whether or not they will participate in using illegal drugs but other than that, I do not believe the war on drugs will come to an end any time soon if at all.

One good example of the war on drugs being a never ending cycle is the Wakefield family. The daughter Caroline is addicted to drugs and the father does not find out until after one of her friends overdosed on drugs. He then begins to attempt to "clip her wings" but Caroline's drug use just gets worse. They try to send her off to rehab, but she steals her parents money and runs off. This is where you begin to see her doing whatever she needed to do to attain her drugs including trading drugs for sex. Her father who works for national drug control begins to search for her and then realizes all of the problems and issues that are an effect of of the war on drugs. This family shows all different kinds of evidence as to why the drug war will continue. The entire family is involved the father is mad at the mother for keeping the daughters drug problems from him and the father is upset with his daughter. Also, I am sure it does not look good on the head of the national drug control to have a daughter that is out selling herself for drugs. This entire situation brings down the whole morale of the family. Situations like these will continue to uprise due to the war on drugs.