HEROIN

Heroin

Heroin

Heroin is one of the most deadly drugs out in the streets today. Maybe people use heroin once a day, or whenever they have enough money. Heroin wasn't meant to bring harm to anyone; it was just a medicine for patients in a hospital. Then the drug got to popular and made it out into the streets where many people abuse it.

The Drug Policy in the United States is a very strict and well defined policy that, in this day and age, has very little room for change. Most people are well aware of the fact that there are a certain number of drugs that are illegal in the United States, but what many people do not realize is that every drug in the United States is considered and classified by the government. The Controlled Substance Act (CSA) is a new name for the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970(Edgmand, 2004).

The laws haven't changed too much since 1970; they still have the same basic foundation. The only differences that have been made are amendments added to strengthen the original laws on these drugs that are in our country, and make them even stricter. Even though there are many laws that control drugs in the United States, the U.S. Drug Policy is one that is easy to follow and obey. It is well known that in order to stay in the clear an individual should stay clear of drugs altogether, unless they are prescribed by a physician. Many of the government supporters base there opinions on fact and statistics, it has been shown through both of these that “marijuana users face a 2 percent chance per year of being arrested… for a cocaine user [the risk is] 6 percent” (Edgmand et al. 221). Those who support the government's decisions when it comes to the drug policy believe that those numbers are enough to assume that outlawing harmful drugs like marijuana and cocaine altogether will help to decrease the supply and demand of the drugs because people will be afraid of being arrested. This is one argument that they use to justify the outlawing of these drugs(Field, 1993).

They believe that if they can lower the supply and demand for harmful drugs that is a start to eliminating them from the streets. Supporters of the government's drug policy also stand by their argument that by outlawing ...