Sen. Butch Miller said when he told a young employee he would be participating in a panel on drug use among youth in the county, the worker immediately offered an insight. “‘Well, I’ve been out of high school for about five years, and when I was in high school it was much easier for me to obtain drugs than obtain beer,’” Miller recalled the worker saying. Figuring out how to treat drug abusers and prevent use is a constant concern for public health, law enforcement and criminal justice officials. Local leaders from all of those realms came together Thursday evening at Northeast Georgia Medical Center for a public presentation to assess and answer questions on how drugs are being dealt with in the community, with a particular eye toward youth.