CRIM 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: New York City Police Department, Methadone, Drug Abuse Resistance Education
10 Sep 2017
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Chapter 8: apocalypse now: the lost war on drugs. Since the federal government first made narcotics illegal with the passage of the harrison. Act in 1914, the medical, sociologist, and law enforcement communities have debated whether drug use and abuse was a problem for the criminal justice system or for the public health system. American concern with narcotics is more than a medical or legal problem it is the fullest sense a political problem. A war on drugs offers the opportunity for bureaucratic expansion more, money, more personnel, and greater police powers. One of the most effective tactics of drug warriors has been to create a mythical link between drugs and crime. Another is to portray drug users as depraved sociopaths people who must be stopped before they corrupt the innocent. The evils of drug use are exaggerated and drug users are demonized.
