A Letter From the Publisher: Sep. 15, 1986

This week's Special Report on the U.S. drug crisis is TIME's third cover- length examination of the subject in the past 19 months. In delving into a problem that seems to grow steadily more acute, TIME correspondents around the country talked with sources ranging from drug pushers to medical experts. Their findings were frequently chilling.

From Los Angeles, Correspondent Jonathan Beaty directed the four-member reporting team that covered the Western states. Says he: "After a while it became obvious that as long as America's infatuation with mind-altering substances continues, there will be unlimited supplies of drugs." In New York City, a...

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