Drugs And The War On Drugs

Resulting in the person addicted to the drug to keep going always going back to buy more and more of the substance. Besides the fact of it messing up your life and driving you into poverty, it can also effect the people around you and drive them into financial troubles if they decide to help you out and provide you with money.

Today the number are in the war on drug is a huge failure with devastated unintended consequences, it lead to mass incarceration in the us, to corruption, to political destabilization, and violence in latin america, asia, and africa. To systemic human right abuse across the world.”-Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Employment has been positively correlated with retention in treatment. By holding a job, a client establishes a legal source of income, structured use of time, and improved self-esteem, which in turn may reduce substance use and criminal activity. Years of research show that one of the best predictors of successful substance abuse treatment is gainful employment. However, unemployment and substance abuse are correlated before an individual enters treatment. While average education levels of individuals with substance abuse disorders is comparable to the general U.S. population, people who use substances are far more likely to be unemployed or underemployed than people who do not use substances. This makes sense when a review of the literature

Today the number are in the war on drug is a huge failure with devastated unintended consequences, it lead to mass incarceration in the us, to corruption, to political destabilization, and violence in latin america, asia, and africa. To systemic human right abuse across the world.”-Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Drug misuse is associated with domestic violence, increased involvement with crime and police and decline in work quality. Obviously these characteristics would not even make a close to feasible argument as to why a person like that would be a candidate for any job(Terry).

The use of drugs has been used by individuals for centuries. It wasn't until the late 60's and the early 70's that drugs begin to be banned in the United States. In 1971 Nixon declared a war on drugs, which is truly a war on minorities. “The war on drugs is a multibillion dollar public private venture that inflates the value of illegal drugs and its used to criminalize the poor people of color trapping them in a vicious cycle of addiction, unemployment, and incarceration.” (Seventhe general) The documentary explains that the war on rugs has never focused on taking out the drug lord leader and violent offenders. Instead the drug war focuses on the number of minority street arrest. "80% of people arrested between 1980-90 were arrested for possession of marijuana.” (Seventhegeneral) During an interview in the documentary a men stated "we don't control the pipeline of drugs and guns in our community." (Seventhegeneral) In other words, their is someone supplying the citizens with drugs and guns to sell. We have to question why this isn’t being looked at. If you truly wanted drugs off the street wouldn't your goal be to find the source? We know that in the 80's the CIA was smuggling cocaine in to U.S. neighborhoods. Which help lead to the crack epidemic and stricter more punitive laws against drugs. Clinton tough on crime policy lead to more Americans being incarcerated than any other presidential candidate has seen in

During the 1800s, drugs that are illegal today were fairly common. Drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and opium were widely used. Drug users who used these drugs at the time were not minorities. A majority of them made up the white middle class. Drug abuse was viewed as an illness, not a crime. When one got addicted to drugs, they were not seen as criminals, but instead they were treated with sympathy. Today, drug abuse has so many stigmas. It is seen as something evil, something only criminals do, something a good person would never get into. These negative stigmas are portrayed to us through media

Drug addiction is stigmatized throughout society. Stigma is seen in all types of situations; race, religion, disease, mental health, addiction, what a person’s social and economic standing is. All those examples can be stigmatized, and we, ourselves, do this every day and may not know we are. Because society and especially the media has engrained these moral judgments in our minds about what is right or what is normal. But we should take a second to think about these things a little more in depth before defaulting to what we think we know about these problems. In the case of drug addiction, we see stigma in all types of shapes and sizes. Whether in the media or walking to class with a group of friends, we see it more often than not. That feeling you get when you see a person on the street walking through the rows of cars at a stoplight. Some people (myself included) roll up their windows and avoid eye contact hoping they will just walk by. Chances are that person is in that situation because of a serious addiction and really needs help, but isn’t afforded that chance because we the normal people avoid them at all cost. Maybe we can change that. Maybe we can break through these common stigmas and begin to make a change in the way addiction is viewed in society.

There are many consequences to drug use. There is a drug problem in every nation, these cosequences arent jist fines and jail time in can really impact your social life. After getting cought with or using drugs you will then have a criminal recrd, career and emploument issues, license prevention, traveling preventions, and a change in persons social statue. Your criminal record will be on file and it will be harder to have a career and to get a job in some cases.This also prevents a person from getting licenses like for being a taxi driver ot for a liquor store. Traveling will be harder because countires can refuse to give someone a visa if they have a criminal record.

The War on Drug began in 1870s, Chinese immigrants were the targets of federal anti-opium laws, and in the early 1920s, and laws targeting cocaine use in the south and marijuana use in the Midwest and Southwest, also directed at people of color, emerged. In 1914, the Harrison Narcotics Act essentially criminalized opiate and cocaine addition, prescribing drugs for those addicted to them, and distrubiting these drugs except for limited medical and scientific purposes p (409). It is to my surprise that the War on Drugs has been a prolong on going process for decades and yet, there has been programs or treatments to fully cure those who are battling this chronic, biological, and behavioral disease. Although, there is no cure for this disease,

The negative effects of substance abuse on the individual, more so the society as a whole, cannot be overestimated. Researchers of health, social and psychological fields have compounded various studies to help identify and determine abused substances and in painstakingly find what motivates the populace against abusing substances.

Many social stigmas are associated with drug use within our society. At one point in my life I shared the negative connotations associated to drug abuse with the vast majority of the population of this country and the society in which I live. As I matured and began forming my own opinions based on several personal experiences, I began to disagree with the believed norm that drugs are bad for our society. They are a means of escape for some just the same as alcohol and tobacco is for millions of others in this country. Those legal substances are just as bad for your body and habit forming as other illegal substances. Why do so many people frown on those of us who need our help? Drug addiction is a disease yet it’s

These common stereotypes about drug users in turn helped create new societal norms. Drug use leads society to believe only certain (bad) people involve themselves with drugs and the only to way to handle this problem is to make the public aware. Hence, creating new laws and stricter enforcement only helps to inform the public of how serious a problem drug use is and in turn, is labeled as deviant behavior.

     Do people ever think about the consequences about drug abuse? Not many of us do but we all know what it does to us. Drugs are harmful to the brain and the body system itself; they affect the heart in many ways and because of that people become unconscious as to what their actions are. They do not realize how badly they can harm the community around them. Drugs are normally used by those who are not involved in activities such as, religious clubs, sports, etc. The users are normally stressed out with life and at times they just need something to set their minds aside from problems which occur in their everyday life. There are many reasons as to why and how drugs affect the community around the drug user

Drug use fuels criminal behavior as a means to supply one’s addiction. When an addict is tied to the constant need for drugs, he/she will do whatever it takes in order to supply themselves. The easiest way to obtain these drugs is by either stealing the drug itself or money to buy it. Addicts will start to commit violent acts to get money once they are homeless and have no way of getting the drug. One of the most popular tendencies is to rob houses and stores. Drug fiends will go around stealing from stores and robbing people of their money to go buy drugs. After the crime is committed, many of these victims of violence will be greatly against these devotee’s and not accept them into society. Leading people to turn away from wanting to help the addicts. One of the most common outcomes of committing a crime is getting into trouble with the law. When the users get caught for stealing, they get arrested and sentenced to jail time depending on the severity of the crime. Once in jail, the addict will most likely not even be able to get their hands on the drug ever again and cause serious risks to their health, in terms of withdrawal’s. When an addict steals the drug itself, they feel