Thompson Traffic

The war on drugs will never be won on any individual or political level. In Traffic, the Wakefield family is one of the million families that are suffering from the effects of drugs in the world. Caroline Wakefield is the daughter of Robert Wakefield. Robert Wakefield is the head the President's Office of National Drug Control. Unfortunately, his own daughter is a drug addict. Caroline is far gone with drugs. She has been caught using drugs at home and has to go through the death of her friend by overdosing. She then starts stealing money from her parents and runs away. Caroline becomes lost. She is living the life of a drug addict out in the real world. She no longer has the comfort of being able to come to a house or her parents. She is by herself in the worst part of town. Caroline becomes caught up in the drug and street life and begins to prostitute. Her mother,Barbara Wakefield, even admits that she knew of her daughter's drug addiction. Could she have saved her own daughter? Barbara believed that her daughter had to learn her own lesson about drugs. She came up with this theory because she too has had her experience with drugs. When this was reviled to her husband, he was raged. The Wakefield story shows the drug cycle. The war on drugs in a war will never be won as soon as it is shown to the veiwer that the wife and daughter of the drug czar, Carlos Ayala, are involved with the opposition.

In the Mexico story, we learn about the obstacles that drug users will go through to obtain the drugs. In Caroline's case, prostituting is one of the many way that drug addicts retrieve drugs. The drug trade has more money then our unmatchable government has. Traffic shows the how the rulers over drugs will go through hell and high water to acquire money. Killing, stealing, breaking fmailes and lives, the drug lords could care less of the after affects of when the drugs are handed out into the streets. This trend of illegal substances has been going on for decades and will continue. And whom ever gets in their way will be murdered.