Drug Trafficking in the United States Jason Reed ENG122 English Composition Instructor McKenna September 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Over forty years ago, the world declared the war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to control drug consumption, the drug problem has emerged and allowed violent drug traffickers to expand their networks and corrupt even more Mexican and American government officials. The use of violence by traffickers against authorities and witnesses represents a major challenge to the neighboring countries as the ultimate guarantor of law and order within their borders. This in turn, has allowed drug cartels to move illegal narcotics freely throughout Mexico in an attempt to smuggle them
James O’Donnell Econ 306 Illegal Drugs and the Economics Article: “Have We Lost the War on Drugs?” Unfortunately for some young Americans their first lesson in economics is never learned in a classroom but is taught on the street corners, school yards and suburban neighborhoods in a form of “higher” learning. Drugs are not new to the United States and neither is the war on drugs. It has drained the American taxpayer’s hard earned dollars for over four decades. The result is much a larger abundance of more high-tech, lucrative and brutal drug cartels dotted throughout the Americas and most recently notable in Mexico and the widespread killings along the Mexico-US border. The war on drugs and drug use itself is an unfortunate and dreary
Over-medication has become one of the fastest growing problems throughout the modern society. The vast increase in the use of recreational and pharmaceutical drugs have been a result of the increased control by government and large industries. Brave New World is a dystopian novel, which explores the concept of the use of drugs and how the totalitarian government seized control of its people. Citizens in the novel use the drug, soma, in such large quantities as a way to escape the harsh realities of their everyday life. The obsession with drug use has greatly increased, in today’s modern world, as it allows for an easy solution to any situation.
If we legalize, we will be paying much more than the $30 billion per year we now spend on direct health care costs associated with illegal drug use.” (Charles B. Rangel; Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 17, 1998) I agree with him because legalizing drugs such as crack cocaine does a lot of damage to the body and people tend to go overboard in using the drug. For people who shoot up with needles there will be a lot more health risks and a vast spread of diseases. It is already hard to afford medical help this will not help the
Domestic tourists are ones that travel to places inside their own country. Tourists that travel outside their own country and cross another country’s boarder are considered as international tourists. There are two main reasons for the rapid growth of tourism, these include: increase in leisure time and incomes and technology. The push for the advance of technology has led to travelling being cheaper, quicker and safer. Trade Most goods we buy have a label on them.
Policy Development Paper Vance Reed CJA/464 Criminal Justice Policy Analysis 04/22/2012 Thomas McGrath Abstract Overcrowded prisons have been on an up rise for the last two decades. Overcrowded prisons are blamed for a number of reasons, such as the war on drugs, and the Three Strikes law, and the new laws regarding drugs crimes. Financially speaking, the cost is rising every year, even with new prisons and remodeling the population is steady rising. Crime peaked in the early 1990’s and this added to the high incarceration rates. Strangely enough, though the crime rate is now on a downward slope the overpopulated prisons are still increasing.
Prescription drugs has had an increase over the past couple of years, and is a type of drug that is abused more that the other drugs combined and is responsible for a large percentage of deaths. According to "Drug Free World " (2013), Prescription drug abuse causes the largest percentage of deaths from drug overdosing. Of the 22,400 drug overdose deaths in the US in 2005, opioid painkillers were the most commonly found drug, accounting for 38.2% of these deaths (Drug Free World, 2013). Prescription drugs are highly addictive and affect the consumer on all levels from emotional, physical, financial, and
Globalization has changed many things over the past few years; however, it has increased human trafficking by over 10 times the number of transatlantic slave trade in the 19th century. Human trafficking is such a global issue that it is estimated to be worth over 9.5 billion dollars per year, which makes it the fastest-growing source of profit for organized criminal enterprises worldwide. With human trafficking increasing within every region the International Labor Organization approximated 12.3 million people to an estimate by the US department of State of 4 to 27 million. Most potential victims of trafficking are “thrown in” to prostitution due to the fact of poverty. Trafficking victims accept fraudulent offers of foreign employment, such as, childcare or restaurant work, only to find themselves forced into prostitution in deplorable
These global crimes are not influenced by violence, but cause major damage to those affected. Global Drug Trade According to the United Nations Drug Report 2013, in 2011 between 167 and 315 million people consumed illicit drugs at least once last year. Around 10% of users are considered “problem drug users”; this is a disturbing percentage because more than 100,000 people die each year as a result of illicit drug use (Wolf & Pham, 2012). There are several problems linked with the illegal drug trade as it continue to grow globally. Global drug abuse and ease of access have become extremely complex, as trafficking routes are shorter, varied, and easily traversed, and as the demand for heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and amphetamines become increasingly global, so does drug trafficking (United Nations
Smoking and its effect on the circulatory system While there are many different types of drugs worldwide, nicotine is by far the most widely used drug of abuse and one of the most addictive. (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2008; Psychology Today, 2010). US researchers have estimated that one in five deaths each year, more than 400,000 deaths are as a result of smoking. Illegal drug use and alcohol abuse are on the increase and so is the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV The current economic situation has seen a rise in suicides and murders being committed. While these have presented large mortality rates, tobacco causes more deaths than all the above combined.