Pros And Cons Of Quality Of Life

Quality of life is not a byproduct of community safety. Quality of life is defined by Collins ’dictionary as the general well-being of a person or society, the standard of health, comfort and happiness. In term of community safety, the quality of life is determined by the products and resources available within the communities. The recent epidemic with opioid addiction has altered or challenged the safe for the people in the communities. It creates the dilemma of Good Community vs Bad Community in determine the quality of life that a person will experience living in society. Good communities are communities are a better quality of life for their inhabitants. They experience better safe resources, such as police reinforcements or good neighborhood watch. The schools are safe, higher life expectancy because of safe walking trails, less stress, safe play grounds, and recreational facilities. These communities would be deemed as dry communities, as termed by Collins, Johnson, and Saylor (2011). Collins et al. also referred to a damp community in terms of alcohol availability as those communities that prohibit the sale but allow (legal) possessions. In the terms of opioid addiction, the damp community allows legal …show more content…
Effective communication with children will allow them to make decision and voice their own concerns on what appears wrong in the community. This could allow children to seek help on correction the situations if occurs, and get counseling if problems have escalated in schools or if become too complicated. Another aggravated problem that is affecting communities safe and well-being in the communities as well as society is drug trafficking. According to DEA, between the years 2011-2015 there were an estimated 50% increase in people who were sentenced for crimes related heroin trafficking in the United States