... become worse. There are many organizations and volunteer community groups as well as law enforcement, which are continuously trying to make our communities safe. This struggle is known globally as the "War on Drugs". The war on drug and alcohol abuse is a very big part of our society. We face difficult ... do this is the "Just Say No" program taught in the public school system. The "Just Say No" movement was coupled with rigorous law enforcement and produced solid results. One could help this program by encouraging younger students not to get involved with drugs and alcohol and to set a...

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... more laws to penalize users is one way of slowing it down. Drug abuse is obviously a plague to society. Drug abuse uses society's resources by requiring that hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities (Plant). Drugs also hurt future generations because drug abuse, particularly of marijuana, is usually a problem among our future teens ... . Innocent citizens also have to pay higher insurance rates because of the risk of drug dealers damaging property. Drug abuse must be stopped. We also need to attack .....

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... question I"m going to attempt to answer. The government is usually the group that attempts to educate people about the causes and effects of drugs and alcohol through programs such as D.A.R.E (drug abuse resistance education) or S.M.A.R.T. (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Specified objectives). D.A.R.E. tries to educate kids about drugs and alcohol while S.M.A.R.T. conducts studies to see how effective these programs really ... . Many tax payers demand to see what impact their money is having on substance abuse. The SMART program conducts many tests to show how effective or...

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... marks the 28th annual study (www.nida.nih.gov/infofax/HSYouthtrends.html). The 2002 MTF survey marks the sixth year in a row that drug use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders remained stable or decreased. This trend began around 1997 and has gradually showed improvement (decline) in ... of 62 percent. Governor Bush also created Operation Riverwalk, a two-year operation that includes 26 federal, state, and local agencies to stop drug trafficking on the Miami River. Since its creation, 7031 Lbs of illegal drugs have been seized. The Governor has not only been focusing on ... or deliver, with...

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... the corner store. The immediate effects on the user are relaxation and a slight anesthetic effect. Alcohol is a very addictive drug. There are more than 5 million alcoholics in Australia which is and indication of how widespread its harmful effects are. Alcoholics ... over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people ... of the worst drugs because it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membr...

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Alcohol/Drug Abuse Today alcohol is accepted in a social gathering or in a rich environment. Only the rich drink the best wine and champagnes but, abusing alcohol is look down on. The people ... , transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. States ratified the Amendment the next year. Herbert Hoover called prohibition a "noble experiment," but the effort to regulate people's behavior soon ran into trouble. Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult. Soon, such terms as "bootlegger," "bath tub gin," and "speakeasy" became household words. Gangs of hoodlums became more powerful as th...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. Th...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. Th...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win.In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. The ...

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... , but really should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of drug use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement, and will therefore increase our countries revenue and lessen drug related crimes. There are rarely any deaths caused by the smoking of marijuana, however cigarettes, which are ... legal, cause millions of deaths per year. Alcohol, another legal drug, also causes millions of deaths per year, either from overdosing or driving ... . Marijuana is also said to help relie...

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... to alcohol and continually fighting the battles of an alcoholic. Per an interview with Denise Biewiersoff, probation officer, most of the teenagers that she sees for alcohol problems also have drug problems. She finds that most of them smoke marijuana. (Telephone Interview). According to the Madd Organization, ten million Americans are addicted to alcohol. But even more scary alcohol and tobacco ... kill more than fifty times the number of people killed by cocaine, heroin, and every other illegal drug combined (1 "Research on Youth -). Since there are so many problems associated with yo...

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... , you could implement more than one problem into this intervention plan because one problem usually leads to another. A great program that was used while I was in middle school was DARE (drug abuse resistance education). There section of this program my DARE teacher called ARE (alcohol resistance education). This is a great program and should still be taught in schools. So I would have ... of underage individuals would reduce the overall consumption of alcohol by the minors. Underage drinking laws are among our most important tools to reduce underage drinking, and the better the enforcem...

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... prohibition. Someone who sold alcohol illegally was called a bootlegger. This name comes from the large boots worn to hide the alcohol in. The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. After the second, 6.3 million, the third, 28.5 million, and by the fifth, America had lost 300 million dollars ... December, 3, 1933 (36). The so called "War on Drugs" is very similar to the prohibition of alcohol of 1920's. Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. Drugs are...

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... plant with extremely durable fibers that can be used to make clothes, rope, jewelry, paper and many other products. It also is an intoxicating drug that can be smoked or ingested. The war on drugs, specifically marijuana, was started by President Nixon in 1972. That was thirty-nine years ago ... brains and bodies are still developing which can alter the results. What critics fail to mention is why marijuana is considered a gateway drug. Marijuana is a gateway drug through association, not by scientific proof. In fact, a twelve year study done by the American Psychiatric Association shows...

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... before the realization of the stupidity of marijuana exclusion will hit the nation. Millions of people die in the country every year. The main "drug" causing death, however, is tobacco. According to the US Centers for Disease Control, from the beginning of 1990 through 1994, 2,153,700 ... human's actions, appearances and well-being. Any addiction or substance can disturb one's place in society, work performance, or personal relationships. One drug is no better than the other, yet the least harmful one is outlawed. Over the period of time from Prohibition to today, no research ... Pro...

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... to the problems one already has. Teenagers also need to realize these problems not only affect them but everyone around them. Alcohol is a beverage drug that many teens abuse today. "Alcoholism is a chronic disease, progressive and often fatal; it is a primary disorder and not a symptom of other ... crashes than their sober counterparts. Fifty-three percent of falls, 38 percent of drownings, and 64 percent of fires and burns are alcohol and drug related."(Mass 47) In most car accidents that involve a drunk driver, a teenager lies behind the wheel. "Alcohol-related crashes are the number...

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... day for two days of detainment on an Intoxicated Driver Resource Center (IDRC), at a charge of $50 a day A $100 surcharge to be deposited in a Drunk Driving Enforcement Fund An automobile insurance surcharge of $1000 a year for 3 years A Division of Motor Vehicles Restoration fee of $50 and a Bureau of Alcohol Counter Measures Administrative fee of ... with the two myths about parental attitudes towards alcohol use by minors. First, some adults, mainly the baby boomers, don't think that alcohol is a drug. Most parents think that it is better to drink than it is to do drugs. Not true. E...

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... in America are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Almost 50 percent of these pregnancies are caused by alcohol. Alcohol also causes nearly half of teen car accidents (Walsh 1). Throughout America the drug that is used the most among teens is alcohol (Social 1). It is estimated that more than 10 million teens drink regularly. This costs the nation almost 53 billion dollars ... to enforce underage drinking. The program gets communities 3 involved, by strongly enforcing underage drinking laws. Necessary tools were provided to help enforce these laws as well. More law enforcement was also...

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... the 1990's, concluded that 93 percent of seniors in high school have experimented with alcohol at least once during the past year. (The Drinking Age, pg. 1) It is the one drug that high school kids experiment with the most. And what's worse is that the drinking age doesn't even discourage teens from doing it. There are too many loopholes in the ... used to combat the area of selling and purchasing alcohol by minors. States were encouraged to work with other agencies like the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) to combat the still-growing problem. W...

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... may decide to charge the minor's parents with the court fees. 2. The minor can be charged as an adult, but will spend jail time in a juvenile correctional facility. 3. The law enforcement agency has the right to impound the minor's vehicle. The zero tolerance law enforces a blood alcohol level of .01%, which equals one beer, one glass of wine, or one shot ... of hard liquor--that is all it will take to put a minor over the legal limit. Alcohol is legal for adults to drink, but it is a depressant drug that can be just as dangerous as drugs. It distorts the visual perception of drivers an...

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Marijuana: The many uses. Marijuana a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the cannabis sativa. Smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is consumed worldwide by an estimated 200,000,000 ... the user, has two parts. The first deals with physical injury and the second with spiritual health. The main physical threat to society is that users under the influence of a drug with crash a car or airplane, or lose control in some way and do harm. People who have recently smoked marijuana do show signs of clumsiness and forgetfulness. They should not ... point of sale. Th...

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... high risk for dying in fatal alcohol-related crashes. Research indicates that most of these deaths and injuries could be prevented through a combination of more effective community policies, enhanced local enforcement efforts, changes in individual attitudes and behaviors. With no improvement in current safety performance and expected yearly increases in travel, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) projects that fatalities ... should be carried away to prevent accidents related with alcohol in El Paso and in the whole Country. Works Cited Kerber, Lisa and Lynn Wall...

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