Most drugs are illegal, save alcohol, and people from the best families are affected by the outcomes of usage, whether through beginning casual use or the harsher end of it…addiction and death. There are many good preventive drug abuse programs that target the early years. Drug addiction treatments and counseling are available for the asking, but few are. Our children, a precious resource, the future of our country, deserve to have every opportunity to overcome societal obstacles. We need every program available to combat drug use, abuse, and addiction. Every man, woman, and child that want to help combat drug use and addiction need to make themselves available to individual family members, friends, and even volunteer for support groups. The key is early intervention before a life of crime begins. The criminal justice system is overcrowded with alcohol and drug abusers. The rate of recidivism in the U.S. is estimated to be about two‐thirds, which means that two‐thirds of released inmates will be re‐incarcerated within three years (Lise McKean & Ransford, 2004). Considering the fact that crime is complex to begin with, deciphering the drug-crime connection becomes very difficult, and the conclusions are necessarily that much more elusive and tentative (Bartol & Bartol, 2008). Drug use is not necessarily the cause of crime, but
Most drugs are illegal, save alcohol, and people from the best families are affected by the outcomes of usage, whether through beginning casual use or the harsher end of it…addiction and death. There are many good preventive drug abuse programs that target the early years. Drug addiction treatments and counseling are available for the asking, but few are. Our children, a precious resource, the future of our country, deserve to have every opportunity to overcome societal obstacles. We need every program available to combat drug use, abuse, and addiction. Every man, woman, and child that want to help combat drug use and addiction need to make themselves available to individual family members, friends, and even volunteer for support groups. The key is early intervention before a life of crime begins. The criminal justice system is overcrowded with alcohol and drug abusers. The rate of recidivism in the U.S. is estimated to be about two‐thirds, which means that two‐thirds of released inmates will be re‐incarcerated within three years (Lise McKean & Ransford, 2004). Considering the fact that crime is complex to begin with, deciphering the drug-crime connection becomes very difficult, and the conclusions are necessarily that much more elusive and tentative (Bartol & Bartol, 2008). Drug use is not necessarily the cause of crime, but