Many people don't know the gravity of the issue, or that there are approximately 30 million slaves in the world today; each slave on average is sold at $90 globally and $1,895 within the United States (Tan). ... State Department, of the 800,000 people who are trafficked across international borders every year, 94% are women and 60% are children (Neubauer), and an average of 23,250 of these people are trafficked into the United States. ... Many sex traffickers not only threaten these young, underage girls with death and violence, but also their families. ... It is also hard because most vi...

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One commercial states that by buying drugs, a person helped to massacre an entire family in Columbia. ... A Coca farmer in Columbia averages about $1,000 per month but the government is paying off the Coca farmers by giving them $2,000 in subsidies and technical assistance to grow crops like rice, corn, and fruit which will but a substantial dent in their monthly income. ...

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Many traditional researches were conducted in trying to explain the phenomenon suggesting different causes for its existence, which included poverty, poor family background, lack of protection, and bad associations, etc. ... Push factors include poverty, poor academic performance – school dropouts, unemployment, dysfunctional family background that led to lack of care and abuse, crime-prone and unsafe community, criminal members in family and even boredom. ... Local researchers in Hong Kong also found that deviant youths were exposed to more adverse family condition and easily suscepti...

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Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs? For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent...

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Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs? For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent...

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These variations of ways Puerto Rican immigrants earned a salary was not too different from each other, since all of these ways of earning an income for a living was not enough to live a normal life and support their family. ... According to Bourgois (2002:92), "Ray's workers, for example, averaged slightly less than double the legal minimum wage - between seven and eight dollars an hour." ... Schooling for children from poor Puerto Rican families wa...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...

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With the decision in Colorado to legalize marijuana not only for medical use, but for recreational use as well and Washington State considering the same, the question arises: Is marijuana legalization right for America? My own view is that in the case of a medical necessity, possibly, if there are n...

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