Address to the Nation on Drug Abuse Campaign, September 14, 1986

Full Title: President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's Address to the Nation on the Campaign Against Drug Abuse from the White House. September 14, 1986
Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent)
Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
Collection: Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration), 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
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Production Date: 9/14/1986
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Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600
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[@Amanda53424]

"there is no war on drugs. Only a war on drug users "- dr Gabor mate addiction dr. "Instead of a war on poverty they have a war on drugs so the police can bother me "- Tupac Shakur "The war on drugs creates a war FOR drugs" - Charles Bowden

[@garycraig6506]

Hmm, I wonder; was Nancy sipping on a Martini, smoking a cigarette and popping some pills? Just curious.

[@bradyfry8031]

Possibly, but you may have her confused with Betty ford

[@1985collado]

Mr and Mrs king pin drug dealer's.

[@G.GordonMidi]

If you see colors better when you're NOT on drugs-- you don't have very good drugs!

[@gabjay8183]

Watching this thing stoned is my addiction

[@Scumful]

Me rn 😂😂😂

[@steelcash]

Magic is a real thing. How do you get 300 million people to back an effort that will ruin the lives of millions while getting the rest of them to pay for it with hundreds of billions of their tax dollars? Watching this film is much like what we’re seeing right now in this country. It’s sad, but it’s also funny. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone because I really don’t know if anything is real.

[@leonstanic3960]

My thoughts are with u my friend. We are all slaves and this was the weapon used to program minds of naive people believing ih the word of nothing more than petty criminals. I wonder how these two feel about their roles in enslaving the humanity.

[@KTripable]

What?! Literally what was wrong with this?

[@deboraholsen2504]

Steelcash and Leon, I don’t get you!!! President Reagan and the First Lady were sincerely trying to help us, you dingbats! They only said helpful things!

[@OldschoolFlaBoy]

Jesus Christ is real and I am not I am not talking about religion

[@ricdavid7476]

Its very sad that 34 years later the drug problem is just as bad if not worse than then. I ma a 66 year old British man and was a full on drug addict for nearly 40 years many of those as an injecting heroin addict. I am 15 years clean and life is real , its hard but real. I lost everything that means anything through drugs.

[@anonymousmobster2444]

She was a good woman, which is why she threw people into miserable prisons if they were caught smoking a plant.

[@ricdavid7476]

@@anonymousmobster2444 Yup you are right the Lord said in the king james bible there is none good but God so i have removed that bit of my original comment

[@Kilanator]

@@ricdavid7476 the drug problem is indeed worse than then. But the main culprits are the two who gave this speech. War on drugs has killed and imprisoned many young people, and on the tragic death of Len Bias he had the perfect scenario to pass even more laws that made clear his intentions: to treat the drug problem as a public safety issue instead of a public health issue. The truth is that they do not care about the youth. They only care about themselves and maintaining their power.

[@ricdavid7476]

@@anonymousmobster2444 i met a lot of people in mental hospitals who were there as a direct result of smoking grass and hash and they had irreversible brain damage. Sure alcohol also causes brain damage but the notion that grass is an innocent plant is just laughable. tell that to the mexican cartels that traffic in the stuff you know those guys who are responsible for tens of thousands of the most sickening bestial murders every year. All drugs will enslave you that is what they are designed to do, tobacco , heroin, cocaine, grass , alcohol they are all bad and will kill you after they have enslaved you.

[@willh4269]

I don't know if you will read this but thank you

[@benjamintobiasbenny7746]

Gary Webb?

[@mikevogel8698]

The this is your brain on drugs egg commercial and just say no actually had opposite effect. The DARE program hell I remember PA state police bringing a drug kit to schools that looked cool as w Hell. Look em up. Had every drug in it.

[@jonathanhadley2555]

Neoliberalism!

[@iolprz]

They are reading their response on a tv behind the camera

[@deboraholsen2504]

No, when people read, their eyes must move back and forth. Their eyes were not moving that way.

[@schroederscurrentevents3844]

It’s called a teleprompter, and it’s fairly normal.

[@victoriaknight9824]

Just say no!

[@mitchiedjdotcom]

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare!

[@tstxvex4125]

nah the two of them and nixon did that

[@anonymousmobster2444]

Weed gave me my life back, Karen.

[@BenDover-lz6is]

Lmao try weed, lsd, shrooms, (pure) mdma, dmt, mescaline, peyote. Miss me with that karen shit.

[@r.j.lombardi111]

@@BenDover-lz6is Try not using it, or not smoking, or try not overindulge in alcohol...

[@r.j.lombardi111]

@@BenDover-lz6is also having a bad LSD trip can fuck your whole life... I've seen people who had it and boy they aren't happy

[@matthewcoker594]

It's ironic smoking legally while watching their FAILED efforts. Ima just say NO to these two 🤔😁😂

[@ohmsharma386]

Failed efforts? History will know who they are. You will be forgotten.

[@ohmsharma386]

Matthew Coker Why so serious son?

[@matthewcoker3860]

Just take a look at the drug war they had a huge part of. Cost many lives. Cost many their freedom over a plant. Failed policies that didn't work, even though they helped put many away. There's no marijuana shortage out there, it's being legalized over those failed policies. Crack is still available everywhere. And they knew prohibition doesn't work but launched it anyway so Big Pharma, Big Alcohol & tobacco can line their pockets for years without competition from any legal cannabis.

[@anonymousmobster2444]

@@ohmsharma386 Reagan was trash and will be forgotten almost entirely within the next 50 years! 😂

[@deboraholsen2504]

They only failed because of people like you!!!! That is, if they did fail!

[@dafinker3443]

Nancy seems to be in a daze zzzzzz

[@MrJasonshores364]

pills and booze

[@aapbeete9761]

Always be busy with work, skill development and self improvement for a joyful n peaceful life. Else u will be sucked by pleasures. Peace n pleasure can't exist together.

[@diegosolan2076]

is this speech in the public domain???

[@seangaynor445]

The recording has a high-pitched hiss. Was this in the original tape? If so, there may be a way for your video technician to remove it. Thank you.

[@robmiller4630]

Mitt Romany and gal

[@videowifie]

no way that thing came with that body

[@deboraholsen2504]

I love how the Reagan’s cared so much about us! 🥰

[@OldschoolFlaBoy]

Yeah they cared so much about us they was bringing in tons of cocaine to meet at Arkansas under his administration to get money by selling the drugs to fight his war in South America to kill young people down there while he's killing young people in America usually the poor and uneducated here in America why Nancy is saying just say no to drugs this is our government

[@austinglass9865]

This is 1986 and I’m still not president what the hell do I do with my life?

[@isaacmartinez6904]

The moment where Nacy Reagan stole the show 9:47

[@deboraholsen2504]

Why do you have to make fun of sincerity?

[@tgoodin1102]

Ha ha CIA so funny

[@boring247boring5]

Le jour Today is 1-11-2021. Great Nancy is she in Heaven with sinatra?

[@Scumful]

Yeah she died in 2016

[@johnny-vu6rl]

throat goat

[@Scumful]

Lmao I was thinking I’d see this here

[@johnny-vu6rl]

@@Scumful😮

[@skylineXpert]

A great speach.

[@KTripable]

People disagree with doing drugs is insane ... yay to these fine people

[@atlas_is_lost]

Jesus christ, you’re a moron. The people disagreeing in the comments are just talking about what an abysmal failure the war on drugs has turned out to be, they’re not condoning drug use. But all the war on drugs has done for us as a country is waste trillions of our tax dollars on mass incarceration of the dispossessed, but that’s a conversation for a different time, because that’s a whole lot more to unpack than just this. Anyways, Nancy’s stance, and by proxy, the government’s, towards chemical dependency was that all a person needed to do was just say “no.” If you’ve checked out some of the DSM-5, (Which I doubt you are, because you don’t seem like the type of person who’s taken time to study basic psychology. Or study anything for that matter.) you’d know that addiction is a disease. It’s classified as a disease because it is chronic, progressive, and fatal. Telling a drug addict to “just say no” cures addiction the same way “have a nice day!” cures depression. Telling someone all they have to do is say no not only oversimplifies an increasingly complex issue, but also allows the perpetuating of the myth that drug addiction is a choice. It created a national dialogue where there were people who made good choices, by saying no to drugs and people who made bad choices, by saying yes to drugs. It didn’t allow for any shade of gray or even the remote possibility that drug addiction was a compulsive act beyond the control of the person afflicted. I, myself, am in recovery from addiction… So I know what the fuck I’m talking about. ❤️😁

[@deboraholsen2504]

@@atlas_is_lost Don’t you know that Nancy is referring to people who have never tried drugs? And how can a person ever be a drug addict if they never try drugs and just say no?! She’s right, if you always say no, then you’ll never know if you’re an addict! Why doesn’t that make sense to y?

[@treemanzoneskullyajan711]

I CANT WATCH IT I JUST CANT

[@treemanzoneskullyajan711]

GOD I HATE THIS

[@eking120]

USA border horizon pour Gazaettes generation

[@robmiller4630]

"SHE has ...to fight drug abuse?" Huh? She ain't fighting . At her age she is on something fir pain?

[@deboraholsen2504]

This is such a great seminar Now if we would just heed it! My heart went out to that poor little newborn Nancy told us about! How could a mother ever do this to her precious baby?!! How could 9 months of drugs EVER be worth ruining a baby’s future 90 years??!!

[@jaisy2024]

narcos

[@FlowerPower-st7uv]

Satsang is truth. Papaji and mooji Wikipedia Love david. Peace

[@austinglass9865]

Nancy and I