Helping Other People Everyday (HOPE) is more than a clever acronym for the staff, management and independently contracted Agents of USHEALTH Advisors. For them, it is a mission that is lived on a daily basis; an organizational commitment to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Why did the United States have a prohibition movement, and enact prohibition? We offer some generalizations in answer to that question. Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages.
The main reason for prohibition is a belief that people cannot control their desires and if drugs were legal the population would immediately become addicted to drugs. This fear of addiction is the driving force of prohibition. 100 years of prohibition has caused the demonisation of drug users and exaggerated views of the dangers of drugs. This has largely been caused by the media which has left much of the public convinced prohibition is the only course of action.