Drugs

Criminal activity and drug misuse always seem to be wrapped up in the same newspaper headings and news reports you see on a regular basis. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway address the connection drugs misuse and crime have on each other and identify the casual mechanism that connect the two. In the article the author is mainly focusing on a research method that was used to find the connection of drugs and crime using the data from criminals that have experienced these connections first hand.…

The issues caused by the war on drugs and the U.S. hegemony over the area have created a widespread desire for new alternatives for dealing with narcotic production, distribution, and consumption. Increasingly, Latin American countries are decriminalizing personal drug use, and in a few cases, even legalizing certain drugs. Argentina, for example, decriminalized personal possession of drugs in 2009, and other countries like Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia, among others, have taken…

Prescription Drugs: Prescription drugs are being used for nonmedical reasons Prescription drugs are being misused and/or abused. Most people take prescription drugs due to the fact that have visited their doctor and the doctor prescribes it to them although lately people have taken prescription drugs to another level. Prescription drugs are now being used for nonmedical reasons. Prescription drug abuse has drastically increased over the years. Do you know how much harm that can do to you?…

In the United States, drug use and poverty come in a pair. It’s difficult to understand why this occurs, it is known that there is a correlation between the two. In a considerable amount of cases, substance abuse and poverty can be causal. The causation and correlation between poverty and substance abuse is a complex relationship that relates to low job opportunities, lack of community resources (such as substance abuse agencies), mental or physical disabilities, and lack of a solid support…

sophomore year, when his dangerous drug habits that would eventually take his life got him expelled from school. From that point on, Kyle fell in and out of prison, rehab, reform school, back to prison, and again in rehab. Beaten up and tossed around, quietly waiting for the inevitable final blow. I wondered, “why heroin- of all drugs?”…

Drug Paraphernalia Florida Statute 893.145 The Fort Lauderdale Defense Lawyer Bradford Cohen has experience in criminal cases of Drug Paraphernalia. You can be criminally charged with possessing syringes, rolling papers, pipes, bongs, straws, or anything else used to ingest or assist in ingesting illegal narcotics. There is a wide use of discretion when it comes to getting charged with this crime. Usually it is charged along with a criminal charge of possession of drugs or narcotics, but it…

The route of drug administration can be referred to as where or how the drug is being taken. There are eight different routes for drug administration. The three most common types of routes are by inhalation, oral and by injection (subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous. In a brief summary I will discuss each route. Firstly the oral administration being the most common type, which is taken by mouth or by swallowing, is usually in the form of a pill, capsule or liquid. Oral administration is…

prescription drugs in order to relieve pain or depression. Moreover, there are widely accepted than ever before and is affordable among high school students. Due to the easy access of purchasing prescription drugs that are medically prescribed—they have become more popular with our generation. Prescription drugs and heroin does not receive the same social stigma. Even though, some of these pills can be as strong as or stronger than heroin—prescription drugs are legal; whereas, heroin is a street…

The collective reason for this hypothesis advocates that drug use and crime are not precisely correlated together. However, this hypothesis model alludes to the drug-crime relationship elements such as failing school systems, organized gangs, and weak social support systems. Moreover, drug use and crime may have shared environmental and dependent on a set of circumstances. For example, there is a direct connection between delinquent juveniles and the rise of gang membership in urban cities…

OTC Drug Abuse Over the counter drug abuse.Just alone, is not good news in the slightest bit. It’s one of the many serious problems in the world today. Drug abuse isn’t just about street drugs such as marijuana. Besides marijuana, legal medications are the most commonly abused drugs in the U.S. Over-the-counter and prescription drugs can help and heal us.. But some can be addictive and dangerous if they’re used the wrong way. I chose two questions to ask someone who knows a lot in this kind…