The current opinion in our community is that smuggling drugs is now a serious problem in American. It is a known fact that most police officers who should be upholding the law are as corrupt as the drug dealers. Fairly low paid officers are able to accumulate enormous profit from illegal drug sale. In contrast to the traditional police corruption in which police takes bribes from gangster to look the other way rather than enforce the law, many police officer have become drugs baron themselves.
Drugs corruption has also penetrated all the service of the use military as the have been given increasing responsibility for drug enforcement. Perhaps the most revealing example is the 2000 conviction of Lieutenant Colonel James Chieti, who the United States Army Commander leading America forces in Colombia. The colonel’s wife shipped $700000 worth of cocaine and heroin through the US embassy in Bogota and sold it in the US (Associated Press 02000)
President William Clinton and George W Bush assured us that they will win the war on drugs, as did their predecessors. Yet people in law enforcement and local communities are not convinced for good reasons. Although casual illegal drugs use appears to fluctuate and may have declined in recent years, the regular usage of these drugs has not. The government warning about how dangerous these are, such as; heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine only confuse matter further. Actually, such warning are an indication that these drugs are unwinnable.
Production sources, smuggling techniques, purity price and use patterns have changed through the years in dynamic drugs markets as governments has made claims of progress, but the war on drugs that began in 1914 has no end in sight. The United State has been unable to face the failures of its war on polices and to examine alternate that would lesson dangerous drug use. We are still captive to them about drugs use and the false of drug users created a century ago by religious zealots, xenophobic native born American and progressive formers once we are beyond the emotion emotional straight jackets imposed by the Harrison act original lobbyist we can study how we and other countries can minimize the harm of drugs. Through history, mankind has used psychoactive substance for a variety of purposes. Whether we like it or not, drugs will prove attractive to some people. As long as there is a demand for drugs, someone will find a way to supply them. The US cannot suspend the law of demand and supply either domestically or globally. The drugs war is causing more harm than the drugs.
There can always be a link between the war on drugs and pharmaceutical companies. If we focused on prescription drugs, there is a growing evidence that the abuse of prescription drugs is increasing, especially among adolescents and young adults. Understanding the distinctions among underlying risk factors for misuse of distinct types of prescription drugs is an important public health priority, as prevention and intervention strategies may differ depending on the type of drug (Katherine M. NP) A comprehensive understanding of why, the rates of alcohol and drug use differ across time, across countries, in countries across states, and across certain population subgroups is critical and understudied. Social norms, cultural traditions, attitudes, availability, and policies are all likely critical to understanding broad differences in prevalence of substance use across areas, (Katherine M. Np).
Yet few efforts have been made to comprehensively collect this information across time and across geographical spaces to examine the influence and the nteraction of these factors with more micro level determinants such as families, peers, and genetics. We suggest that a strategic comparison between groups with different outcomes is an important way forward for the study of macro level influences on substance use. We have demonstrated that comparing urban and rural drug use is one way to find variation in structural factors that affect individual-level risk, yet empirical data to test our model remain critical.
The crisis of non-medical use of prescription drug should be an important public health priority. Responding to the war on drugs requires new theories from which new hypotheses can be developed and new data and methods that can be used to solve it. Increased understanding of spatial factors is critical for developing a better model for the etiology of substance use considering the importance of physical setting, as well as for identifying points of intervention and prevention at a population level (Katherine M Np).
