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Not very. To some extent, this requires a definition or level of success to be articulated. Drug interdiction efforts have in places and at times reduced the supplies of addictive drugs, but not stopped them entering the USA and other Western nations. Interdiction if successful should cause the price of illegal drugs to rise, but in fact heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine have decreased in price and increased in purity over the last several decades. Although interdiction efforts must continue to defeat drug addiction, we lost the War on Drugs as an interdiction effort. We now have to also attack the demand for illegal drugs:The U.S. for decades perceived the problems in Colombia, Mexico and wherever the opium poppy, marijuana or coca grew. Some believe the Chinese Communist Party undermines the U.S. with fentanyl. The problem was “over there,” but we cannot control the whole world. Poppies can grow nearly anywhere, and so can marijuana. The bad guys make synthetic addictive drugs wherever they choose.We invaded Afghanistan to fight our terrorist enemies, and then Afghanistan became a huge poppy field and by far now the world’s leading supplier of opium, from which we derive morphine and heroin. The problem is closer to home than many contemplate. We cannot keep the problem at any distance, inside prisons or exclusively in drug treatment facilities. We have to work on peoples’ heads and everyday behavior.Fentanyl is “easy and inexpensive to synthesize and prepare for the marketplace.”[1] Fentanyl has been around for decades, comes in lollipop and patch forms and is now made both legally and illegally. In 2007, the DEA cracked down on the precursor chemicals used by clandestine laboratories and claimed a decline in fentanyl overdose deaths,[2] but any such decline is not noticeable in the charts of exponentially increasing annual overdose deaths due to fentanyl. On April 1, 2019, China announced they would ban the analogs of fentanyl. Any interruption in the diversion of fentanyl to illegal use helps, but can only be a temporary expedient as it is now manufactured in illegal American labs. We must step up our attacks on the demand for drugs because we will never completely stop or even slow down the supply. To attack demand, we must punish or discourage drug selling and using. The optimum places to attack demand are in the minds of teenagers who have not yet partaken of addictive drugs, and in that regard we have failed spectacularly.[1] Theodore H. Stanley, The Fentanyl Story, The Journal of Pain, Vol 15, No 12, 1215-1226 (Dec. 2014).[2] “Fentanyl,” Drug & Chemical Evaluation Section, Office of Diversion Control, DEA (March 2015).Selection from Get Tough & Smart: How to Start Winning the War on Drug Addiction (advocates more civil handling of drug problems, expanded Drug Courts, legal duty on addict to recover, mandatory treatments, work for addicts & prisoners, more MAT, punishments other than incarceration, denormalizing recreational pharmacology, more publicity of worst aspects of addiction, less enabling, less emphasis on NIDA brain disease paradigm, etc.).

I respectfully disagree with the approach taken above to evaluating whether someone is "right" for "engineering" by a list of general properties. I think this might be akin to trying to find a soulmate based on preferences in food and music. These can be good indicators sometimes, but not always.Firstly, I would like to point out that there are many different kinds of engineers.To list just a few:Food Science EngineeringMaterials Science EngineeringIndustrial EngineeringCivil EngineeringMechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer Science EngineeringTextile EngineeringBiological EngineeringPaper Science EngineeringNetwork EngineeringAerospace EngineeringNuclear EngineeringEnvironmental EngineeringPackaging Engineering (In my opinion, this is possibly the best job in the world. These folks basically get to do that science challenge where you drop an egg from a particular height and try to keep it from cracking every day all day long forever...)Within each field, you will find similar general categories like:Design EngineeringDevelopment EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringProcess EngineeringQuality EngineeringResearch EngineeringWhat should be clear to you from looking at this list is that there are a lot of different ways to be an engineer. There is a spectrum, and the daily life of a Biological Engineer working on Development has nothing in common with the daily life of a Mechanical Engineer working in Manufacturing. I can't claim to be an expert on what separates and defines the different disciplines, but I can tell you from my own limited observations that some types of engineering require higher tolerance for group work than others, some types require higher tolerance for math than others, some types require more problem solving skills than others, some types require more interest in continual learning than others, some require more lab work than others, some require more detail than others, and some require an interest in things that you may never have thought had anything to do with "engineering."Do you have:1) Humility. Engineering professors do not teach content. Engineering professors teach thought processes and rigour. Content is immaterial and consequently negligible. They may occassionally test on content, but that is because testing on thought processes is too time consuming to be efficient in most cases. Learning a new thought process is never easy, and pride won't help you.2) Confidence. Confidence is different from pride. You should be confident that even though you are going to take some hits to your ego, you will persevere.3) Initiative. Can you decide to do something, and then do it?4) Perseverence. Can you discover that something you are doing is not working and try again? Can you discover this yourself, quickly, without someone else telling you, and adjust your course?Most people possess these qualities.I have come to believe that the same mental functions that govern a human's ability to do "math" (and what we call math are actually algorithms in most instances) are universal. Knowing to apply a particular theorem when presented with an equation of a particular form is a lot like knowing to put your foot on the break pedal at a stop light. I think of math as a language these days. In highschool, the math you do is more like practicing common phrases in french.The ability to do any mental task is simply a muscle, and like any muscle, it grows stronger with use and atrophies with disuse. This is true of every other subject-- language, physics, science, programming, etc.To inspire you, my current boss (who is the head of development engineering at a global automotive safety supplier) never went to college and started as a lab tech. To add insult to injury for the rest of us who took the "right" path to an engineering position, my boss is the go to person at my company and always solves the problem at hand.To inspire you further, my mother, who got a BS in Spanish at a public college and then was a home-maker for 15 years, learned to program using my class materials while I was in college. She never made it past trigonometry in math, couldn't explain what F=ma meant if she wanted to, and wouldn't know a suspension bridge from a truss if the two were sitting next to each other. Yet, because she approached programming with an open mind and the hunger of someone who really wants a skill, the humilty, perseverence, initiative and confidence she naturally possessed allowed her to learn to be a better programmer than I am in some instances. She has no classical training. While she was learning, she called me between classes to ask me questions on debugging her code. These days, sometimes I covertly take a "bathroom break" while I am at work in order to call her up and ask her questions about debugging my code.The most important reason to become an engineer, then, is that you really want to do something that engineering will allow you to do. Do you want to play with really big machines? Do you want to design an enzyme? Do you want to make cars? Do you want to play with fires and explosions? Do you want to make phones, or phone software? Do you want to build bridges? Do you want to program stoplights so that they are in sync? Would you consider a programmable laser a tool or a toy? Is it worth a little bit of hard work to play with your chosen toy?

Many of the things the U.S. government did to handle crime and drug addiction back-fired with unintended consequences, and we cannot claim to know very many guaranteed answers. The U.S. spent billions of dollars fighting the War on Drugs and created massive incarceration greater and more expensive than anything now seen in the world. The incarcerated population grew while the addicted population expanded, and now those sick worlds are merging in astronomical misery and costs. The big government approach is awkward and slow. Meanwhile, drug traffickers operating on private enterprise principles are running circles around governments, dropping prices while increasing quality and quantity, marketing products on the Dark Web, creating synthetic drugs in clandestine laboratories, using Bitcoin for international transactions, corruptly dominating some countries, using submarines and drones, always staying two steps ahead of law enforcement. By decreasing the cost of narcotics, and increasing the supply, selections, diversity and purity of illegal drugs, traffickers since 1979 caused an exponential increase in overdose deaths. We should give law-abiding private enterprise a chance to employ recovering addicts and prisoners, drive down the demand for illegal intoxicants and bring American manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., in addition to all they do to combat the drug traffickers with computers and devices.The U.S., the States, cities and counties have been attacking the supply of intoxicants for decades, primarily with criminal prosecution, while the price of psychoactive substances has dropped and the supply increased, purified and diversified. The attacks on drug supply need to continue. There are some 57 separate federal programs to address the Opioid Epidemic, most temporarily funded by the U.S. Government, and each State has multiple programs, which the States have trouble administering and coordinating. The judicial system must expand its role “treating” people on an individual basis.The U.S. response to the previous crack cocaine epidemic is a perfect example why central control often fails. We thought at the national level that we could incarcerate our way out of the problem. Later, we realized piling on more years in prison does not work, and that in the process we created vast racial disparities in sentencing. Many were all for getting tough on crack cocaine, and they intended well, but through centralization we went backward. Some liken massive incarceration to New Age slavery.[1] Unintended consequences teach us what not to do as we continue the search for workable, just and effective solutions. Trial and error, although slow, will produce victories over time.The U.S. for decades perceived the problems in Colombia, Mexico and wherever the opium poppy, marijuana or coca grew. Some believe the Chinese Communist Party undermines the U.S. with fentanyl. The problem was “over there,” but we cannot control the whole world. Poppies can grow nearly anywhere, and so can marijuana. The bad guys make synthetic addictive drugs wherever they choose.We invaded Afghanistan to fight our terrorist enemies, and then Afghanistan became a huge poppy field and by far now the world’s leading supplier of opium, from which we derive morphine and heroin. The problem is closer to home than many contemplate. We cannot keep the problem at any distance, inside prisons or exclusively in drug treatment facilities. We have to work on peoples’ heads and everyday behavior.Fentanyl is “easy and inexpensive to synthesize and prepare for the marketplace.”[2] Fentanyl has been around for decades, comes in lollipop and patch forms and is now made both legally and illegally. In 2007, the DEA cracked down on the precursor chemicals used by clandestine laboratories and claimed a decline in fentanyl overdose deaths,[3] but any such decline is not noticeable in the charts of exponentially increasing annual overdose deaths due to fentanyl. On April 1, 2019, China announced they would ban the analogs of fentanyl. Any interruption in the diversion of fentanyl to illegal use helps, but can only be a temporary expedient as it is now manufactured in illegal American labs. We must step up our attacks on the demand for drugs because we will never completely stop or even slow down the supply. To attack demand, we must punish or discourage drug selling and using. The optimum places to attack demand are in the minds of teenagers who have not yet partaken of addictive drugs, and in that regard we have failed spectacularly.[1] Angela Davis used the term ‘New Age slavery’ in Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). She and I do not agree, but it is a catchy phrase, appropriate in the ways we compare different slave systems, and she is from Birmingham. J. Thorsten Sellin, Slavery and the Penal System 30, 177 (1976) outlines the many similarities between slavery and criminal punishment in different nations.[2] Theodore H. Stanley, The Fentanyl Story, The Journal of Pain, Vol 15, No 12, 1215-1226 (Dec. 2014).[3] “Fentanyl,” Drug & Chemical Evaluation Section, Office of Diversion Control, DEA (March 2015).Quoted passage and footnotes from Get Tough & Smart.