Prompt: when people think of drug abuse and addiction, they usually think of how it affects the individual user or addict and the user or addict's family and friends, but it is important to consider that drug abuse also affects society. describe how drug abuse affects society and the consequences of drug abuse in america.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?