Drug Abuse affecting the Criminal Justice System

Drug Abuse affecting the Criminal Justice System

Introduction

The issue of drug abuse in the society of America is the most devastating and is impacting the public health severely. It has both the direct and indirect impacts on society. Therefore, for controlling it there are numerous public policies being implemented, and multiple campaigning methods are in progress for its elimination. This drug abuse is also leading people towards the criminal acts and resulting in the disruptive behaviors of the people (archives.drugabuse.gov).

Discussion

Drug Abuse: An Issue

The main issue is the substance abuse in the society of America, which is affecting the national terms of the society and causing the nation more than 484 billion dollars of cost. This cost margin is critical just like the costs of chronic diseases like Diabetes or Cancer. This cost not only encompasses the costs of treatment, but it has the major impacts associated with the accidents and criminal activities. This abuse is not affecting only the individuals, but all the other people of the society are also at the mercy of such people (archives.drugabuse.gov).

Drugged Driving

According to the estimations of the “National Highway Traffic Safety Administration”, almost 10-22% of the accidental crashes and incidents reported and recorded were mainly because of the drug involvement of the drivers in the.

Violence

According to research, more than half of the people arrested for the crimes involvement of theft, homicides or other assaults, were found under the influence of substance abuse at the time of being arrested.

Stress

The people of the society are diverting towards the abuse of drugs mainly because of their exposure to the stressed conditions.

Child Abuse

It comes to be the most ironic aspect of the national interest that most people told that they were abused sexually in their children age, which led them towards the adoption of substance usage (archives.drugabuse.gov).

Public Policy

For controlling such devastating activities in the society, there are certain public policies for this purpose.

Drug Courts

The Drug Courts initiation and funding are mostly based on local and state level, but it has also been supported on the federal basis for the main themes of its development, expansion and execution in the form of the “federal Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program”. This program was first sanctioned under “Title V of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994” (Franco, 2010).

Drug courts are considered to be the most dedicated in the area of dockets ...