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/^t/Drugs re-entered the social life but this time not as vicious ones associated usually with hippie groups but as benign ones taken by people regardless of age and occupation, during parties or in disco-clubs helping them to perceive the world as a perfect and beautiful place and allowing them to feel optimistic about everything they see. No wonder that adolescents without inhibition more and more reach for drugs. They are too young to remember the downfall of drug users of 70's and perhaps too ignorant to know the other, more murky side of potent drugs that step by step wreck the brain. Meanwhile smugglers are thriving because demand is now flourishing. It seems that the time has come when drug taking and pushing have become a large scale phenomena and must no longer be ignored.