Perdue: Drug 'Plague' Has Infested West Virginia

Sunday's Charleston Gazette featured a column about drug abuse and its effect on West Virginia by Delegate Don Perdue, D-Wayne. Perdue is the chairman of the House Health and Human Resources Committee.

Perdue said that all the talk of health reform in Washington has been missing one very important issue.

"At no time has there been any meaningful discussion of the plague that has infested our streets, our schools and our very homes," Perdue wrote. "A 'community acquired infection' that now appears to destroy the future of an entire generation yet even to be born."

Read the op-ed here.