Using New York City as a major distribution hub, these criminal groups move heroin up and down the eastern seaboard and into the Midwest. ... The Cooperative Effort between the DEA and Local Law Enforcement Agencies The cooperative effort between the DEA and local law enforcement agencies began in 1970, before the actual establishment of the DEA, with a "pilot" task force created in New York City by the former Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (DNDD).This first task force was consisted of investigators from major state and local regional agencies, primarily the New York City Police ...

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We also follow David through his years as a teacher, a drug addict and an artist, from North Carolina, to Chicago, to New York and finally to France, where he, with his boyfriend Hugh, struggles to assimilate the French culture and painfully learn the language. ... Another story, "City of Angels", describes a scenario which anyone who has lived in New York City has probably experienced at least once. ...

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Phoenix House counselors and other staff members provide over 100 programs in nine states including California, Florida, New York, Texas and New England (Phoenix House, 2001). ... An example of a for-profit treatment facility is Hazelden whose headquarters are located in Center City, Minnesota. ... Hazelden has locations in Minnesota, Florida, Oregon, Illinois, and New York. ... California leads the country in the number alcohol and substance abuse treatment facilities with 1,458 followed by New York State with 1,086 facilities. ... While there may be numerous counseling positions located i...

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The link between drug use and crime is not a new one and numerous studies show that drugs use directly relates to crime in multiple ways. First of all, and most directly, it is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse (such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and amphetamines). Illegal and illicit drugs also are directly related to crime through the effects they have on the user's behavior and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking. The Office of national Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) su...

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How would you like to go to a café, have a cup of coffee, and smoke a joint? This is common in some parts of Europe, such as the Netherlands. However, in the United States, marijuana is illegal. Marijuana can be good for you, yet it can also cause many great dangers. Marijuana, long outlawed by...

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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. ... New York authorities supported DuPont's research, stating the reduced prices also accompanied increases in the numbers of both new users and abusers of cocaine (DuPont 127). ... In 1987, in Zurich, Switzerland, the city government set aside Platzspitz Park as an experimental laboratory, decriminalizing drugs within the park, making them available without legal consequences. ...

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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. ... New York authorities supported DuPont's research, stating the reduced prices also accompanied increases in the numbers of both new users and abusers of cocaine (DuPont 127). ... In 1987, in Zurich, Switzerland, the city government set aside Platzspitz Park as an experimental laboratory, decriminalizing drugs within the park, making them available without legal consequences. ...

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These include: the institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Bar Association; American Public Health Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; AIDS Action Council; British Medical Association; California Academy of Family Physicians; California Legislative Council for Older Americans; California Medical Association; California Nurses Association; California Pharmacists Association; California Society of Addiction Medicine; California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church; Colorado Nurses Association; Consumer Reports Magazine; Kais...

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Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their issues. One point of view to take is offenders do not have constitutional right to treatment. They committed the crime; they can do the time. On the other hand the view point of balancing prison and jail overcrowding, public policy, the right to fair and equal treatment, and assessing those who can...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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