Opposition suggests a drug free world is the ideal type of world because of the negative impact that drugs have on the world. Drugs not only destroy families, cities, and sometimes even countries, but they slowly kill the user. Every time a drug addict uses they are getting one step closer to death. This is proven because of the amount of drug-induced deaths. David W. Murray, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, Brian Blake, Senior Fellow and Vice President of Development at Hudson Institute, and John P. Walters, Chief Operating Officer at Hudson Institute, state, “In 2014, 47,055 Americans died from drug-induced deaths; 29,000 of these deaths came from opioids like Heroin and prescription drugs” (Murray, Blake, and Walters par. 2). Almost 50,000 Americans die every year due to drugs and the war on drugs helps this number decrease. The war on drugs is essential if there is hope for a drug free world. For a drug free world to be obtained the amount of drugs and addicts has to decrease. The number of addicts is decreasing because of the successes of the war on drugs. William J. Bennett, Host of "The Bill Bennett Interview" and former Director of Drug Control Policy for Pres. George H.W. Bush,and Walters states, "The CDC notes that less than 4 percent of opiate misusers initiate heroin within five years, and points to the impact of heroin supply" (Bennett and Walters par. 12). The number of drug users that start to use heroin 5 years after they first start using opiates is under 4 percent. Likewise, this is the cause for the heroin supply being less than it usually is. A drug free world would be ideal but the idea actually happening is ignorant; there is simply an abundance of drugs and an exorbitant amount of users that are strongly addicted to them. The realization of a drug-free world is nonsense because of the amount of drugs and the amount of addicts that would do anything to get high. There are common products that Americans use every day that can be used to get high. Drugs and ways to get high are too readily available for the world to become drug free. Americans personalities are too addictive to not have drugs in the world. As stated in "Addiction and Substance Abuse,” “By the early 1900s, some 250,000– 500,000 Americans were addicted to cocaine or opiates, according to the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a think tank based in New York ("Addiction and Substance Abuse*” par. 13). America has had a problem with addiction since the 1900s when close to half a million Americans were addicted to cocaine. This statistic supports that America will always be addicted to drugs because of the way drugs make them feel. There have been states fighting for the drug rights activists. In fact, Williams shares, "Sixteen states, including South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, already treat simple possession of drugs as a misdemeanor instead of a felony in some or all cases--and Oklahoma may join them" (Williams par. 20). With these sixteen states fighting for drug charges to be dropped to a misdemeanor there could be more states to follow suit. With the legalization or lessening of drug related crimes starting, a drug free world would be almost impossible. This is proven by the article “Addiction and Substance Abuse,” "Yet despite more than a century of law enforcement… illegal drugs remain available for those willing to break the law to obtain them, spurring profits for drug dealers and breeding addiction problems across all social classes and demographic groups" (“Addiction and Substance Abuse*” par. 4). The war on drugs is not working; there are ways to obtain drugs and still being able to obtain drugs means that drug dealers are making money and there is going to be addiction problems. With all of this being taken into consideration a drug free world is not possible and the war on drugs is not necessary because no matter the consequences there will be drugs available to the American public.