Comparative Harms Of Legal And

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narcotics unless the drug was prescribed by a doctor (Drugs 79). The next major act the came about to try and enforce drugs was in 1970. It was the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. These two acts created schedules for drugs amended the penalties for violation and also gave strength to the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. What the federal government meant for these acts to do was act as a model for the states legislation to follow, and more often than not have been followed (Drugs 82). Then during the beginning of the 1980’s the government began what is known as the War on Drugs. During this time many task forces, drug enforcement offices and drug polices began to appear and the focus of the drug control began to come down to punishment rather than treatment.
Lets try to define abuse and what it means to abuse drugs. Drug abuse consists of taking more than the prescribed amount of a medication without the medical ...

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there is other types of treatment. Some of those other types of treatment include psychotherapy, psychological counseling and other types of detoxification programs, which is a supervised type of treatment that gradually takes the drugs out of the user’s system (Microsoft Drugs 1).
During illegal drug abuse there is often crime that can become part of the user’s life. Not only is it illegal to buy, sell and use illegal drugs, many users can’t afford their habit. To support their habit they then have to become involved in various types of crimes. These crimes often include burglary, robbery, and petty theft in which they then sell to afford the drugs. So the user then becomes ...

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