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 D.E.A. performs hundreds of drug busts a day in major cities and small towns all over the United States. ... The use of technology plays a big part in the deals that take place in the streets of big cities all over the United States. ... The bio states, "By 1983, crack cocaine became the inner city drug of choice. ...

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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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More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. ... Drug dollars poured into Colombia, building cities. ...

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More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. ... Drug dollars poured into Colombia, building cities. ...

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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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Drugs have become a very serious problem in the United States. They have become a component of one's every day lives. This Nation's reliance on drugs for pleasure, depression, and medical relief dominates the political and economic scene. Much debate over the drug issue occurs daily. Pleasure is one of the main reasons for drug use in America. ...

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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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The impact of globalization and deindustrialization was seen mainly in black inner-city communities. ... The abatement of employment opportunities among inner-city residents elevated incentives to sell drugs, namely crack cocaine. ...

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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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Gates started the program with ten DARE officers working in fifty L.A. city schools; today the 3 organization claims to have trained over 20,000 officers who are teaching it in fully two-thirds of the nation's school districts (Buzz 1995). ...

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