People don't care enough.
Drugs is like modern day Russia. Nobody gives a fuck about Russia because of all the propaganda about Russia. If people were to actually think for themselves and take a black and white story and turn it into a story on a spectrum of colour, they would see the flaws in their own reasoning and see beyond the façade painted by politics.
If drugs were Ukraine however, people would be sending money to rehab centers to aid in the war against the war on drugs. They would be virtue signalling on Facebook with toy syringes and fake sugar pills attempting to culturally appropriate so random strangers would approve of them. They would be sharing posts about the atrocities experienced in the real world of drugs and drug addiction and overdose. There would be whole movements dedicated to freeing Ukraine, I mean, drug addicts and a drug addicted society from Russia, I mean, from the corrupt politics and age old stigma and political rhetoric.
But no, that's not happening. Because people are conditioned to not challenge and question the mainstream narrative and only turn up to protest against injustice, corruption or whatever when it serves their rulers, nothing is done. CNN won't report it because its not relevant to the continuously expanding and changing illusion being cast out into society like a spell to keep people dumbed down and asleep to what is really going on.
Drugs are just those things bad people take because they are rejects from society and made bad life decisions. Drugs are the subject you cannot talk about because its a closed case. They are bad, okay? Now shut the fuck up and stop asking important and probing questions. You might just obliterate the bullshit narrative behind what is holding up the eyesore that is the war on drugs. I mean, oh shit, look over there! Ukraine! Look over here, COVID! But don't look over here! What are you doing? DO NOT LOOK OVER HERE. Nothing to see here. This is just people who died but it doesn't matter.
It should be pretty obvious to most people the underlying theme that keeps repeating throughout the years in our world. The underlying theme where there's always something more important than the actual real shit going on in the real world, and not the Hollywood scripts and manicured fairytale stories told by our politicians and the corporate whore media. Fuck drugs, fuck poverty, fuck unemployment, fuck housing crises, debt crises, fuck mental illness, fuck all the REAL things going on in the world. Why? Ukraine, that's why. COVID. Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi, the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, aliens, terrorists, the insurrection, Trump, those bastards fighting for freedom of speech (aka the new domestic terrorists), anybody who challenges the transgender agenda and the men pretending to be women taking part in women's sports competition and starching them (surprisingly).
When people start to question the overarching narrative that holds up the reality you are told to live in, all of a sudden all those poor souls addicted to drugs and overdosing (RIP to all of them) start to be very real and now they actually matter.
I guess it's down to what your priorities are and who and what they are aligned with. Which is why questioning what creates the environment for those alignments to exist in the first place is very important