Cebu City‚ about a drug dealing operation happening in Sitio Tunga‚ Barangay Tanke‚ Talisay City‚ relating to Dan August Racaza and Henie Macaraya. The latter was part of the PDEA Watch List containing a list of persons allegedly involved in drug trade but is yet to be confirmed. They put the accused under surveillance and planned an authorized buy-bust operation led by their team leader‚ Intelligence Officer 3 David Mark Maramba. Together with the informant‚ David briefed the team and Alvin was
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Prescription Drug Abuse in America Illegal drugs in the United States have been a topic of discussion for as long as anyone can remember. For years we have been fighting a war against drugs and this paper will not reflect current trends of illegal drugs‚ but will show that the new problem these days in America is prescription drugs. According to state law enforcement officials‚ “An analysis of 168‚900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal
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illicit drug in the United States‚ with 60 percent of users using marijuana only. Clearly‚ prohibition fails to eliminate or even significantly deter the use of marijuana among the American public. Why do so many people smoke marijuana when it is illegal? There are many personal reasons why people smoke marijuana and there are logical ones‚ as well. As research proves‚ marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol or tobacco; and actually has been proven to be less harmful than these two leading recreational
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Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Introduction Mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients is a controversial issue. Should the government hold people accepting government entitlement’s accountable for illegal drug use or would this type of action cross the boundary of civil liberties into an invasion of privacy? The government has a vested interest in getting welfare recipients back into the working population. Holding welfare recipients accountable for illicit drug use only
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Taxpayers should provide support to those in need‚ recipients in return should engage in responsible behavior for receiving assistance. Requiring welfare recipients to stop using illegal drugs is an element of a return obligation. It’s a real issue. Most related studies indicate that one third of people on welfare use illegal drugs (Rector‚ 2011). 2. As welfare approaches over a trillion a year‚ (Rector‚ 2011) taxpayers have a right to insist that their money goes to those who truly need it and it’s
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public health and social policy norms‚ such as interventions using established indicators of health and wellbeing. Porter reminds us that the notion of ’drugs’ as we understand it today is a relatively new invention‚ therefore classifying drugs as ’illegal’ and punishing those
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gangs and drugs. Many believe that our nations social policy on drugs have been the cause of the growth of gangs‚ in other words the growth of the drug trades. Many young gang members have been known to be involved within many illegal income-producing activities such as robbery‚ extortion and larceny and this was due to the widening marketing of illegal drugs such as crack cocaine‚ marijuana and so on. Due to the large amounts of money that is said to be obtained with the drug trafficking and it just
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Social Research on the Illegal use of Drugs and its Prominence among Males This paper compares scholarly research with lay opinion on the subject of illegal drugs and why men use them more then women. A review of the research about illegal drugs and males shows that males use drugs more often and earlier then females. This is based on certain social factors like alcohol use‚ reckless behavior‚ and marijuana use. I created and distributed a short
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not drugged‚ into correct behavior. (Califano 9) Introduction The use of medications and drugs of all kinds have been controversial in America since the very beginning of the country’s emergence. And this controversy does not just deal with illegal drugs‚ although that is a huge part of it‚ it also deals with legal drugs‚ the ones the government deems safe for everyone to use. People approach the issue from all sides of the spectrum including people who think it is the best thing that has happened
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Language Analysis - Alcohol and drug culture in Australia Following the death of Leigh Clark after the circumstances which occurred after he was supplied alcohol by another parent‚ writer Bruce Guthrie argues in an opinion piece that the law requiring parental approval to supply alcohol could save lives. The second article which supports Guthrie’s contention is a cartoon by Mark Knight‚ published in the Herald Sun which highlights the public outcry against the call to legalise drugs‚ where both
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