Drug

When talking about the subject of drug testing welfare recipients, many standpoints and opinions are made by people from different culture backgrounds and living situations. Random drug testing welfare recipient have yet to become a law because the government been going back and forth over this issue and has not came to a conclusion to if it is constitutional or not. Also the question of if it is actually beneficial to the regulating of welfare. Some agree that people who consider being welfare…

existing issue such as drug use. Therefore, crime and drug appear to be two sides of the same coins and the dilemma here is how to be cautious in decision taking toward one issue and avoiding side effects on the other side. The relationship between drug use and criminal behavior has been of primary interest to researchers and practitioners for most of this century. According to the preexisting research’s, drugs are related to crime in multiple ways. The existing relationship between drugs and…

allows drug abusers to correct their behavior and lessen recidivism for similar crimes (Drug Courts, n.d.). The advantage of having a drug courts improve the treatment an offender gets and allows them to take charge over the positive changes in their day-to-day lives. The National Institute of Justice has found that recidivism rates drop significantly around 17%-26% depending of the programs used and assignment of judges over the length of time done (Do Drug Courts Work? Findings From Drug Court…

Prescription drug abuse and inappropriate use is a serious public health problem. According to the Centers for disease control and prevention, United States is in the middle of an epidemic of deaths from prescription drug overdose. Drug overdose, especially non-medical use of prescription drug is the second leading cause of death from unintentional injuries in the United States. Prescription drug abuse is seen in all aspects of our population. Physicians and healthcare providers who prescribe…

In the United States something as simple as a drug possession charge can get you into serious trouble, with some offenses even marked as felonies. (Controlled Substances Act, 2014) This is a ludicrous idea, drug crimes are usually victimless, restricting drug usage violates basic human rights, and even tobacco and alcohol are legal. In addition to these things, putting drug charges on a person’s criminal record, or sending someone to jail on drug charges pushes more people to a life of crime.…

The war on drugs is an ongoing problem in the United States that will never be solved by prohibition. In this country taking things off the shelfs like alcohol and making it illegal to consume like in 1919 when the Eighteenth Amendment was passed will always cause illegal activity. The authors of the Sober Truth who quoted “in 1919, a watershed: the Eighteenth Amendment, enshrining into law a nationwide prohibition on the sale of alcohol. Any promising treatments that may have arisen between…

Drug addiction in the United States not only destroys the lives of the user, but the lives of their family and friends as well. Kristina is a troubled drug addict mother with five children who do not even know who their mother is. Her addiction to meth causes her to become a teenage mother to her first born Hunter, and the young mother of five some short years to come. Her children are all put up for adoption as they are born, because Kristina cannot take care of them due to her drug addiction.…

This qualitative study are about the experiences of drug dependent fathers in realtions to their child. This research is set in Iran and currently addicts and treatment center have been increasing in this country. Addiction is a huge matter when it comes to substance abuse. When a person is addicted, they can not focus on anything else except what they desire and in many cases can not have stable relationships with anyone. The methods were through a “phenomenological approach.” These subjects,…

employee for drug use on the job? Yes, I feel that employers should be allowed to fire employees who get caught dirty. Drug use is a choice. Using drug while at work affect your ability to perform the duties in which you were hired. If your contract says that their no drug allowed while at work you should respect the company policy. With this being said, there is a fair playing field if you were to get fired. Drug use at work never really leads to anything positive. Many people start using…

Drug use and abuse has been a rising issue in America for decades and has a major impact on the criminal justice system. Although it is unclear as to when drugs were first discovered, we can date back to at least 12,000 years ago when cannabis (inherited the name marijuana from Mexico) was cultivated. Cannabis Sativa is considered humanity’s oldest cultivated crop with a long history. These plants are believed to have emerged in Central Asia in the regions of Mongolia and southern Siberia.…