The War On Drugs The movie "Traffic" and the book "The Corner" by David Simon are clear examples of one, if not the most serious, problem that our society is facing, the use of drugs and the war on them. They explain the reality that affects a big segment of our society and the ...

Making Matters Worse "Drug abuse is a serious problem, both for individual citizens and society at large, but the 'war on drugs' has made matters worse." -Ethan A. Nadelmann The prohibitionist approach to the war on drugs, just like the temperance movement of th...

INTRODUCTION President Richard M. Nixon signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on October 27th, 1970. Moments later, he turned the law over to Attorney General John Mitchell, head of the Justice Department at the time, who was directed to head the federal drug-law enforcemen...

Prison overcrowding is one of the biggest challenges facing the corrections system today, and nowhere is it a bigger problem than in the State of California, where "The number of drug offenders imprisoned in the state today is more than twice the number of inmates who were imprisoned for a...

The drugs-in-sport problem could not be solved if all competitors were allowed to use anything they like, as it takes away the idea of people using their physical abilities. The tradition of sport that has existed for many years would be ignored and the drugs would have terrible effects on those at...

Heroin---Summerian texts refer to the opium poppy, from which morphine, father of heroin, is derived, as the "joy plant". Often referred to as 'Smack, 'Junk', 'Skag', 'H', 'Brown', 'Horse', 'Harry', or 'Boy', heroin is a highly addictive drug that af...

War on Drugs Society's view of drugs has changed base on the sociological imagination of the times. People's behavior and attitude have adjusted based on the social forces that have evolved around them. This shifting of ideas has been forever apparent in the America and a prime example is the p...