Too many people do not realize what a colossal problem drug abuse is in the United States today. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy concluded that Americans spent at least 57.3 billion dollars on illicit drugs between 1988 and 1995, money that could have been used to support the economy. ... People treated are given a small oral dose of a synthetic opiate, sufficient to block the effects of withdrawal, but not enough to bring on the dangerous "high" that drug abusers aim for. ... People in the programs typically have long histories of addiction and criminal behavior; t...

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As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as weapons, drugs, illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds), sex slavery, terrorism offences, and torture. ... Arms and Drug Trafficking Although transnational crime is a ...

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Currently that is no longer the case as high profile celebrities and white collar; well respected upper class people have brought their addiction stories to the forefront. ... DAWN data demographics further claims that Vicodin is often seen as the "white collar- addiction. ... There have been numerous reports of high profile and white collar people who have faced the powerful grips of Vicodin addiction. Sometimes seen as a "white-collar" addiction, Vicodin abuse has increased among all classes of people. ... For some reason that theory changes when the addiction surfaces on the high profil...

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In 1988 The White House anti-drug policy was "zero-tolerance". ... Prohibitionists rejected the idea that people could be trusted to drink in moderation, arguing that alcohol use inevitably led to moral corruption and undesirable behavior. ... Adding the jail and prison estimates gives a total of 59,300 people incarcerated for marijuana offenses. Using the adjusted estimates for "marijuana only" gives a jail-plus-prison total of 37,500 people incarcerated for marijuana without any other drugs involved. ... Finally, using the adjusted estimates for possession gives a jail-plus-prison total of ...

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In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a steadily increasing number of our people." ... There was no doubt in her mind that the Chinese were the downfall of the white race by means of social corruption. ... A radicalized image of drug use was painted for the Canadian public wherein the "innocent" white youth were being corrupted by manipulative Asian traffickers who turned them into immoral "dope fiends...

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Many of the children have also had the same problems, and are refusing to take school seriously because they don't think that they are special and capable of such success, as some of the white folks appear to have. ... This means that there would be less young people being killed from those illegal substances. Even the people who would seem suspicious to either murder or convince the community to deceive one another would be charged. ... This simply not only gives the community a safer living environment, but would also give the poorer people more jobs to help defeat the rising poverty ra...

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Thomas-Builds-The-Fire also holds a very cultural place in this tale as he fills the role of storyteller and continues the oral tradition common to many indigenous peoples as Mary Pat Fisher indicates in her book Living Religions. Her text labels the position of storyteller as a spiritual specialty among indigenous religions and states, "Because the traditions are oral rather than written, these people must memorize long and complex stories and songs so that the group's sacred traditions can be remembered and taught, generation after generation" (Fisher, 59-60). ... (Brown & Ling 390) T...

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E's, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. ... Some of the most common activities that ecstasy users engage in and reasons why people take MDMA are as follows: 1.) ... People who wish to spend the 'experience' or the high thinking about their personal problems also use ecstasy. ... No matter what is in Ecstasy, it generally comes in the form of a small white pill (it kind of resemble...

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For more than 50 years, drug prohibition, with an emphasis on enforcement through criminal justice measures, has been the policy of the United States as well as rest of the world's countries (Levine 2002). However, despite this sustained global effort, many of the goals espoused by supporters of dru...

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They argue that if it is proven to work, then why keep it from helping people? ... It also isn't morally right to sell these drugs to people off of the streets. ... When this drug is affecting young people, you know there is an issue, whether it's used for medicinal purposes or not. ... According to Former Deputy Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, "By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. ... The addiction, health risks, lac...

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The downfall comes when the speed-addicted-conceptual-artist version of David Sedaris finds that his drug dealer, "a jittery, bug-eyed typesetter whose brittle, prematurely white hair was permed in such a way that I couldn't look at her without thinking of a late-season dandelion" is moving away. ... A perfect example of a story that is nauseating, depressing, but also induces a sick laugh only enjoyed by those who can appreciate his intentions, which I think are to make people laugh, not so much to bring to people attention the horrors of society. ... It's also exceptionally funny...

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Cultivation and Manufacture Smack, china white, horse, black tar . . . all slang names for heroin. ... Flowering Opium Poppy Mexican Black Tar Heroin Heroin #4, also known as Smack, China White, and Horse. ... The leading producers of opium poppy in the world are the hill tribe people of Southeast Asia. ... These dilutants are white and powdery just like the heroin and include caffeine, baking soda, powdered milk, and quinine. ...

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They state that marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good people each year in America. ... It is the marijuanalaws that make innocent people criminals."" ... The jails are overcrowding as more people are convicted of marijuana charges. ... They also say that by making drugs legal, the people who have never tried drugs for fear of being caught by the law will have no reason to be afraid anymore and will become users (Legalization of Marijuana). ... The THC, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol, in marijuana weakens the immune system...

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A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found treatment to be 15 times more cost-effective than law enforcement at reducing cocaine abuse. ... The United States now incarcerates more than 450,000 people for nonviolent drug offenses - more than the entire European Union (with roughly 100 million more people) incarcerates for all criminal offenses combined. ... A large number of people who abuse drugs come into contact with the criminal justice system when they are arrested and subsequently sent to jail or to other correctional facilitie...

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The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... (Duke 118-125) A secondary point made by legalization proponents on this issue is that while the cheaper prices of narcotics under legal...

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The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... (Duke 118-125) A secondary point made by legalization proponents on this issue is that while the cheaper prices of narcotics under legal...

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After observing hundreds of brain scans, Coles found various white matter abnormalities in the brains of young adults that had been prenatally exposed to alcohol. ... Even though drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA are illegal for all individuals to use in the United States, substances like nicotine, alcohol, and even marijuana (in Washington State and Colorado) are legal to be used by appropriately aged people. ...

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