Law enforcement has little effect, and it alone cannot defeat the giant problems that come with drug use in America. ... Also, drug legalization would reduce the amount of money needed to spend on law enforcement. The U.S. government spent $1.5 billion on drug enforcement last year ("Drug Enforcement Statistics"). ... In addition to lowering enforcement costs, legalizing drugs would reduce the number of inmates kept in prisons for drug-related crimes. ... More than half of the crime in America is drug related ("Drug Enforcement Statistics"). ...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For the past thirty years the government has escalated the war on drugs by banning every kind of addictive drug and pumping billions of dollars into aggressive enforcement without significant success. ... The war on drugs is highly corrupting on society 2 because enormous wealth is created in the hands of the worst criminal elements giving them the means to bribe the pillars of our society like law enforcement, judges, and politicians. ... Law-enforcement receives a large budget for chasing down drug dealers. ... "Continuing the 3 war on drugs on the grounds that it destroys neighborhood...

• Word Count: 898
• Approx Pages: 4

Drug Abuse A BREIF DESCRIPTION Definition The use of illegal drugs or the abuse of medicine or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a way or in quantities other than intended for. ... Different drugs can do different things and have different affects on people. ... Intravenous Drug Abuse Many drugs can be injected. ... Drugs and how it affects society Drugs affect society in a big way. ... It also cost a lot of money to run rehab centers and make sure there is enough law enforcement to control the amount of drug activity that is going...

• Word Count: 290
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

DRUG ABUSE People in this world value certain things. ... Marijuana has become such a dangerous drug because is a gateway to other addictive drugs. ... Drug abuse uses society's resources by requiring that hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities (Plant). ... Drug abuse must be stopped. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse once and for all. ...

• Word Count: 860
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for drugs. ... Alcohol is a very addictive drug C. ... Marijuana is a popular drug. ... Drug use itself can be a crime. ... Drug abuse drains sociey's resources by requiring that taxes be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities and on prosecution of drug users and dealers C. ...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Drugs: Should Be Legalized Our societies are decaying due to an incessant war against drugs. ... In addition, it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our country's revenue. ... The same thing should happen with drugs. ... She says, pointing that the solution is to keep enforcing addicts that are not convinced of what is better for them or fully interested on their own well being, to stop consuming those substances that only cause them harm. ... It will save the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and not only that but also he...

• Word Count: 739
• Approx Pages: 3

With fewer tax dollars going towards the Drug Enforcement Agency, law enforcement, and court systems, programs such as after school sports and performing arts centers would be better funded. ... My first two marriages ended because of drug use by my spouses. ... After my second marriage failed due to drug use I felt very alone. ... Drugs changed their entire personality. ... Drug use destroys your body. ...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Alcohol is a very addictive drug. ... Drug use, itself, can be a crime. ... Drug abuse is a plague to society. ... Drug abuse must be stopped. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse. ...

• Word Count: 936
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

People all over the world present ideas about how to reduce drug use. ... The DEA, "Drug Enforcement Agency" states that "legalizing drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy heroin, or amphetamines would be like trying to extinguish a fire with napalm, it would simply make matter worse". ... Figures show that decriminalization brought no surge in drug use. ... Drug related court cases have also dropped 66 percent". ... The new drug policy of portugal gives the rest of the world an idea of a new direction, as to dealing with drug abuse and drug related criminal activity. ...

• Word Count: 957
• Approx Pages: 4

Policy on National Drug Control United States narcotics policy seeks for reduction of the supply of illicit drugs to the United States and reduction of user demand within the United States. This is based on three core principles; (1) Stopping drug use before it starts, (2) Healing America's drug users and (3) Disrupting the drug market. Bush plans to accomplish these goals by expanding the efforts to reduce foreign production at the source, expanding interdiction and enforcement activities to disrupt supply lines, expand efforts to reduce worldwide demand, and expand economic disi...

• Word Count: 313
• Approx Pages: 1

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). ... Drug prices have also continued to fall, and drugs remain easily available for much of the population (Wodak 2014). ... Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). ... Because of an aggressive law enforcement campaign against the use and sale of illegal drugs, the rate of incarceration for drug offenses increased nearly tenfold from 1980...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Should we legalize drugs? ... This example, though not drug related, does parallel the drug issue, in that, if drugs were readily available, there use could become of little or no interest to society. ... The war on drugs has meant a vast diversion of law enforcement from violence to an attempt to control how people use their own bodies. ... Looking at the drug issue from another point of view, President Bush gave a speech in June 1992 dedicating a new Drug Enforcement Agency office building. ... If drugs were to be legalized, drug related crime would decrease, and jails would have room fo...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This extra funding could be used to create more efficient law enforcement upon violent crime. ... Law enforcement should not be using such a massive amount of time and resources busting young people with harmless amounts of marijuana, but instead looking at the bigger picture of who is distributing the drugs committing heinous acts of violence. ... Despite the U.S enforcing the hardest drug policies in the entire world, it is the leading all other nations in marijuana use amongst its citizens. ... Marijuana is a drug that would too greatly benefit the United States for it to remain illegal. .....

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Teenagers particularly are using the drug more today. ... There needs to be more done to get drugs like meth off the street. ... Many more billions are spent by the states on drug interdiction, drug-law enforcement, and drug prosecutions. ... Crystal Meth is a terrible drug. The drug causes addiction and is invading the United States. ...

• Word Count: 782
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I have chosen to write about a drug called marijuana and it's advantages and disadvantages. ... Many of those who believe illicit drugs are a major problem in America however are usually referring to hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. ... Unfortunately, the "efficacy" of marijuana is unclear because as an illicit drug studies to adequately test it have been thwarted by drug control agencies. ... Most drug-related crime is either when the person is on drugs or the entire crime is about drugs. ... In 1988, following an extensive review of the scientific-evidence on marijuana, th...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography

AIDS has become an immense problem among inter-venous drug users. ... This plan would include enforcement, treatment, prevention, and harm reduction. ... No one can be forced off drugs. ... These "sites" could help to get the drug addicts off the street. ... Many drug users want, and pray to come off drugs, but its hard when your body is a complete slave to something. ...

• Word Count: 862
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Effects of Legalizing Marijuana Many feel today we are loosing the war on drugs. ... It is now time to look at alternative methods to solving the nation's drug problem. ... Such a dramatic decrease in drug dealers has not only resulted in crime reduction in England but there was also a decrease of drug use.                ... The drug itself may not cause violent crime but people involved in the distributing of marijuana do. ... Actually, the legalization of marijuana would put money which is used for law enforcement into the construction of better educational programs and p...

• Word Count: 658
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Alaska there are laws against marijuana however, law enforcement refuses to punish individuals who grow up to two plants. ... Marijuana is the only illicit drug that has never had a fatality because of overdosing. This drug has never been proven to be addictive in any way. Alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine are what I believe to be the worst drugs in the world because they are some of the most addictive drugs in the world (even more so than cocaine, and met amphetamines) and the most acceptable drugs used in the world. ... These drugs have been legal ever since this great country has been here...

• Word Count: 889
• Approx Pages: 4

Oxycodone / Oxcontin Oxycontin first came to the attention of law enforcement in the sparsely inhabited area of Appalachia. The drug quickly moved north and is currently establishing itself throughout the eastern part of the U.S. ... Designed as time-release tablets, addicts and other users take the tablets and crush them into powder and take the drug orally or dissolve it in water, filter out the insoluble material, and "mainline" or shoot the active drug, which no longer has a time-release feature. ... (Euphoria, sleepiness) One Pharmacist described Oxycontin as a drug that is as close to...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

For many years there has been an epidemic of drug abuse. ... (Prescription Drug Abuse Rivals Illicit Drug Abuse, Some See Double Standard in Law Enforcement, Retrieved December 8, 2002 from http://www.ndsn.org/OCT96/PRESCRIP.html) In the past few years the abuse of OxyContin has lead to many deaths, lawsuits and addiction. OxyContin is a prescription drug for chronic pain and has been said that it is a man made heroin drug. ... People who take the drug are under physician supervision and are very careful when taking the drug. ... There are many abusers of the drug who are ruining it...

• Word Count: 1113
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Besides this law the drug has been commonly used among US citizens. Washington DC, in recent years, has declared war on illegal drugs, vowing to end the illegal drug traffic within and across the US borders and to stop the consumption of these illegal drugs, of which marijuana is the largest contributor and most widely consumed. ... They consider marijuana to be a "gateway" drug. ... This legalization strategy would allow the United States to reduce government expenditures on enforcing drug laws and would allow the United States to enjoy new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales....

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"To enforce her idea that television is truly a serious and destructive addiction, Winn points out other addictions, such as drugs and alcohol, and the qualifications that make them an addiction. ... Whether it be cake to a fat kid or heroin to a drug user, the addict continually feeds his ˜obsession', because "under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly distorted". ... Winn believes that television viewing is a most serious and destructive addiction, because just like drugs and alcohol, "the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real ...

• Word Count: 968
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate