Introduction
The president of the united has appointed a drug czar to compose a new law to manage the problem of drug treatment issues. Majority of Americans are for the idea that a change is necessary on the current trend regarding drugs and drug abuse. The czar is required to compose a new law that would satisfy both law enforcement issues and drug treatment issues and defend his position on the new law.
The new law
(Davies, 2001) argues that, the government should set up a panel that is non-partisan to evaluate the America’s war on drugs. Different states should be allowed to adapt their approach in experimenting drug control as well as being given a 300% increment on budgetary allocation. The increment should be geared towards reducing the use of drugs among youth. Abuse of drugs among women should also be reduced through more services for women as well as subsidized research on their experiences. All Americans should be treated on drug abuse on their request with a variety of options and they should also be given insurance coverage for illicit drug abuse. Effort should be put to ensure children do not get exposed to alcohol and cigarette smoking. A lesson need to be borrowed from the America’s great experiment on the prohibition that lasted for 13 years before it was discovered to be causing more harm than before.
(Kessler, 2003) argues that, the laws that limit access as well as acquiring of sterile syringes should be repealed so as to reduce juvenile criminal activities. Young people will always engage into criminal activities to raise money for the high cost drugs as a result of these laws. When there is prohibition on use of certain controlled drugs, even the politicians and courts become corrupt in what is referred to as white collar crime normally characterized by its objective as well as its modus operandi. In this case, criminals obtain a lot of money through technology interfering with the database and therefore cause massive frauds. The victims are left without the slightest idea of having been cheated. The unsafe drugs affect health of millions of people since the crime are invisible unlike violent crime.
(Young, 2000) argues that, the investigative techniques on narcotics should include diversionary techniques as well as narcotic interdiction. There should be an interdiction unit to monitor drug trafficking and intercept huge shipment of illegal drugs that are meant to be controlled. The detectives should rely on confidential informants as well as anonymous tips and cooperating defendants who can lead them to the suspect locations. The interdiction efforts are supposed to be located where there is busy public transportation such as international airports and shipping locations. Diversion detectives have the role of establishing the diversions of controlled drugs which is normally operated by entrusted health workers or other staff through forgery leading to embezzlement of the substances.
(Kessler, 2003) found that, it is the responsibility of the federal government to regulate illegal drug use although several states are allowed to legislate in consistence with laws in the federal government. As a result these states adopt their models to handle their drug legislation. The main objectives of the current law is to regulate manufacture and sale as well as the use of legalized drugs for treatment purposes while at the same time prohibiting use of illegal drugs such as marijuana and heroin.
Conclusion
The detectives together with other agencies require educating the society on preventions of diversions of controlled drugs. Generally, drug treatment greatly reduces drug abuse as well as behavior related to crime. Workable proposals for dealing with drug abuse include legalization and de-criminization as well as enforcing a policy of harm decline.
References
Davies B. (2001): Illicit Drug Use: Harwood Academic Pub pp34-43.
Kessler C. (2003): Antecedents of adolescent initiation into stages of drug use: Springer 19-25.
Young J. (2000): The Drug takers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use: HarperCollins Distribution Services pp23-29.