... respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs and driving under the influence had the highest percentage of illicit drug use [during] the past year" and that " illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than non [drug] users to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft" and "..[were] more than 14 times more likely to be ... every additional dollar invested in substance abuse treatment saves taxpayers more than seven dollars in societal costs (CSAT 1997). In the 1980s, many new American drug laws resulted from escalating efforts to "get to...

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... nature of prescription drugs such as diazepam (Valium) became known, and caffeine came under examination as well. Drug laws have tried to keep up with the changing perceptions and real dangers of substance abuse. By 1970 over 55 federal drug laws and countless state laws specified a variety of disciplinary measures, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. To clarify the ... situation, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 abolished, replaced, or updated all previous federal laws concerned with narcotics and all other dangerous drugs. While posses...

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... to the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University [1] more than seventy percent of current illicit drug users are employed. This means that more than 10 million employees use illicit drugs, making the workplace an important environment in which to intervene with drug users and to help prevent employees from starting to use illegal drugs. Employers generally test ... the company engaged in discriminatory practices relating to its testing procedures . Unfortunately, an employer just can't make someone take a drug test. There are drug testing laws that determine what an employ...

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... the lives of millions of Americans? America has let this happen by trying not just to prevent or even slow down, but to put a complete halt to all forms of illicit drug use and trafficking. Since the Reagan administration, the government has been taking in and dishing out billions of tax payer's dollars to combat this war to no avail. Instead of ... a patriarchal figure or the big brother to tell Americans how to live, rather it should inform Americans of the dangers of drug abuse and safer methods in which to use drugs if they choose and the treatment available. "Zero tolerance" laws t...

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... into the United States from foreign ports. On the surface, none of these strategies seemed to have an effect on illicit drug use. In 1988 The White House anti-drug policy was "zero-tolerance". Zero tolerance meant: (1) that if there were no drug abusers there would be no drug problem, (2) that the market for drugs is created not only by availability, but by demand, (3) that ... Justice Statistics (BJS) cast doubt on that assertion. Calculations based on recent BJS reports suggest that, at any one time, 59,300 prisoners charged with or convicted of violating marijuana laws (3.3% of the t...

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... failure of decriminalization and legalization. The Netherlands provides another great example, as they have chosen not to enforce their anti-drug laws, exhibiting tolerance in hopes that the people will learn for themselves. As in Zurich, the Netherlands has become populated with drug lords and addicts, making it the most crime-prone nation in Europe. Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use ... . Other evidence in the United States can be found in the vast social experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s. This led to a great push for non-enforcement of existing anti-drug ...

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... failure of decriminalization and legalization. The Netherlands provides another great example, as they have chosen not to enforce their anti-drug laws, exhibiting tolerance in hopes that the people will learn for themselves. As in Zurich, the Netherlands has become populated with drug lords and addicts, making it the most crime-prone nation in Europe. Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use ... . Other evidence in the United States can be found in the vast social experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s. This led to a great push for non-enforcement of existing anti-drug ...

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... , 1993). Restrictive access policies and criminalization of drug paraphernalia possession attribute to increases of HIV cases among intravenous drug users. The United States has the highest incidence of HIV among drug users and yet remains the only Western nation that has not liberalized its needle access policies. It could be that those who make the laws are not directly affected so feel no urgency ... exchange programs are not associated with increased crime rates and that such concerns should not be a basis for formulating policy regarding these programs. Along with providing clean sy...

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