Years and years of hard work and extensive research still struggle to find the answer to one of the most controversial and complex struggles our world has faced since the dawn of our species. Since the invention of religions, drugs have been used for rituals, celebrations and as daily habits. Today, drugs are taking over the world and its population. In the United States alone, more than 47 million people have used some form of illegal drugs, and in 2011, approximately 7 million citizens were registered as drug addicts. Now, is this problem solvable? Are there proven ways to prevent drug use? Recent surveys and experiments over time with students have shown simple but powerful ways to address this problem. One of the most used words was “sport”. In fact, sport is and has been a cure for depression, obesity and of course drugs. Why is this so? The simple answer is that sport just takes up our time and becomes a drug in itself. Bodybuilders, professional football/basketball players and even ping pong players consider exercise a drug because they can't get enough of it. Messi, for example, brings a soccer ball everywhere he goes because he simply can't stop playing his passion, his dream, his drug. Changing the subject now, professional athletes such as the previously mentioned Messi are paid huge sums of money for, as bizarre as it sounds, playing with balls. In ONE year, Messi earns $42.8 MILLION, enough to feed around 20 million families in Africa. So now you ask me: is this right? Well, absolutely not. African children and families work hours and hours every day to get drops of water while footballers swim in money and have everything they want. Of course, this money has some upsides. Some of these millionaires donate in the middle of a paper......to keep your teenager off drugs. " About.com Teens. Parenting Teens, July 2006. Web. December 1, 2013. .Cladoosby, Brian. "Washington Redskins Name Controversy." The Huffington Post, October 31, 2012. Web. "Football Salaries – How Much win football players? » RSS, December 1, 2013. “Kobe Bryant vs LeBron James – Difference and comparison, November 29, 2013. “NESNcom, December 1.. 2013. .