`WAR ON DRUGS' IS NOT WORKING

The drug problem touches all of us, city dweller and suburbanite. Drug
use fosters crime, which results in inner city decline and ultimately
leads to suburban sprawl. Fifteen years of waging a "war on drugs" has
proven an expensive failure.

We need to switch to a strategy of positive reinforcement.
Incarceration provides the opportunity and incentive for drug
treatment and rehabilitation. We have a captive audience whose lives
can be transformed by learning work and living skills. Instead of war,
we need "Schools for Living," both inside and outside our penal
institutions.

Robert W. Corbett

Annapolis