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    War on Drugs

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    War on Drugs Jude Ocampo San Joaquin Delta College Sociology 1a Professor Medina Introduction The War on Drugs is a term that is used to refer to the federal government’s attempts to end the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs. It is not a specific term only relating to a secret policy or objective‚ but to a series of antidrug initiatives that are directed towards the common goal of ending drug abuse. These initiatives include different

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    Criminology 101 – The war on drugs. Enforcing drug laws * drug dealers richer * increased drug related violence * corrupted law enforcement * dissuaded drug abusers from seeking medical help. Verses “ to legalize illicit drugs‚ stop arresting drug users and focus entirely on treatment”. * unrealistic thus Goode argues “ the optimal strategy is a program focused largely on…reducing the damage that both drug abuse and the war on drugs illicit on users and society

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    Today’s Drug laws seem to do more harm than good. The so-called drug war hasn’t seemed to be as effective as it was intended to be. Its original intent lies in its name‚ to attack the drug problem in America. Nixon started the war on drugs in the late sixties to stop drug abuse at the source‚ the distributors. Another intention for the war on drugs was to show individuals taking part in this illegal activity that their participation would cause serious consequences. The government has taken drastic

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    got recruited into the most violent cartel and confess of beheading his victims .Drug cartel leaders are among the most feared people in the world.  Drug cartels started by recruiting family members to keep the business going‚ but now as cartels have expanded in the United States they will recruit anyone in order to make their cartel even stronger.  Usually‚ the cartels would recruit people with experience in the drug world‚ but recently they have been targeting young adults..  Young adults are influenced

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    war with the drugs

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    Ladies and Gentlemen where do we stand on the war WITH drugs Right across the globe‚ the youth is faced with numerous challenges.  The worst and most pressing include unemployment‚ neglect from parents or guardians‚ sexual abuse‚ allurements into engaging in criminal activities and poverty.  In many occasions‚ these challenges have pushed the youth into drug abuse.  Once hooked‚ chances in life for the youth caught in the alcohol and drug abuse web quickly diminish and lives are easily ruined.

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    negatively affect society and the way in which we live our lives. The war on drugs is one of the most violent and controversial issues in the United States current political system. Drug abuse is linked to issues such as racism‚ crime as well as economic discrimination. The “War” was properly declared in the 1970’s by President Nixon due to the server abuse of illegal substances. President Nixon in an interview stated this war as “Public enemy number one” and proposed new laws in order to try and

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    ethnographic studies on drug use‚ critically discuss the propositions for drug policy outlined by the global commission on drug policy. Introduction. All around the world there has been a marked increase in drug production‚ trafficking and usage. The war on drugs initialised in 1971 by Richard Nixon had a primary objective to stop drug use altogether. Weatherburn‚ D. (2001). Reports the war on drugs has been a failure in its own rights. People still use drugs. The global commission on drugs has put

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    sigler Senior Writeing 12 December 2012 THE WAR ON DRUGS The number of people arrested this year for drug law offences as of Monday December 3‚ 2012 was (1‚541‚363). That’s 13% of the total arrests this year. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations than any outer offenses this year. also someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds but this is a good this and someone think that these laws agents drugs is too costly and too much time and money for law

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    Fighting the War on Drugs

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    Using Advertising to Fight the War on Drugs: The Power of Social Marketing or a Waste of Money? Belch & Belch   Purpose/Objective: • Preventing children from trying and using drugs. Problem: • ONDCP and PDFA couldn’t prove that the money being spent on anti-drug messages were reducing drug use among children and young people. Key issues within the case: • Between 1987 and 1989‚ advertisement produced by the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) relied on scare tactics

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    Drug Overdoses: A Case Study

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    In 2013‚ there were approximately 44‚000 deaths related to drug related overdoses. Approximately 16‚000 of those deaths were caused by drug overdoses attributed to prescription pain-medications‚ such as Vicodin‚ hydrocodone‚ and OxyContin (Volkow‚ 2016). Because of this‚ the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stepped in‚ and implemented new regulations that would limit the availability of prescription pain medication (Cherny‚ 2010; Satel‚ 2004). The new regulations restrict the amount of pain-medications

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