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When Carson City sheriff's deputies raided a suspected drug house last summer, they found a pile of methamphetamines and a couple of other things. One was a gun. The other was a 6-year-old child. That's the kind of nightmare combination that makes drug-abuse a top priority for Partnership Carson City. We started out fighting meth because it was so prevalent and debilitating, but it didn't take long to figure out that a wide variety of drugs had infected our town.

We're seeing heroin cases almost every day, something that was almost unheard-of a decade ago in Carson. And illegal use of prescription drugs, often by kids who snatched them out of the medicine cabinet at home, is a growing trend. Meth, cocaine, marijuana — they're all still around, and sometimes we think they always will be. But remember one thing: Most people don't touch them.

The problem is that the few who do abuse drugs cause an enormous drain on the entire community. It's the family member with a habit who has to be dealt with, over and over. It's the employee who drags down a business, maybe without his co-workers even realizing it. And, of course, much of the crime in Carson City is connected in one way or another to drug abuse and trafficking. Everything we do — law-enforcement, counseling, treatment, community awareness — is a step toward reducing the problem.