Drugs in the United States

Community Policing and Drugs

Community policing calls for comprehensive approaches to the problems of drug abuse and drug-related crime. Trafficking and abusing illicit drugs destroy neighborhoods, contribute to violence and victimization, and often ruin the lives of drug users and their families. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart on Crime Initiative (the comprehensive review of the criminal justice system in order to identify reforms that would ensure federal laws are enforced more fairly and—in an era of reduced budgets—more efficiently) acknowledges that the arrest and jailing of drug users and dealers alone has not eliminated the drug problem, which continues to plague the United States. The COPS Office resources offer a more holistic community policing approach to combating drug crime problems.

Partnerships between Law Enforcement and Public Health Agencies to Address Opioid Use

Identifies the most common policies and approaches to combating the incidence of opioid and heroin addiction

Crime Prevention and the Drug Courts’ Effect on Criminal Offending for Juveniles and Adults

Evaluates effectiveness of drug courts in reducing future offending and drug use

Drug Market Intervention

Provides practical information about the execution and implementation of Drug Market Intervention (DMI) by law enforcement officers

Drug Endangered Children and Law Enforcement

Offers practical information about the complicated issue of drug endangered children.

Prescription Drug Fraud and Misuse

Provides an overview of the problem of prescription drug fraud and misuse, reviews risk factors, identifies questions to help analyze the problem, and summarizes responses from evaluative research and police practice

High Point Drug Market Intervention

Provides an overview of law and policy issues related to drug strategies to reduce the most notorious drug markets.

Drug-Impaired Driving

Provides an overview of the problem of drug-impaired driving, reviews risk factors, identifies questions to help analyze the problem, and summarizes responses from evaluative research and police practice

MDMA in the Criminal Justice System

This section covers the topics below related with MDMA :

Club Drugs

Drugs in the Criminal Justice System

This section covers the topics below related with Drugs:

Underage Drinking

Drugs in the Criminal Justice System

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia in relation to Local Government Regulatory Functions

Find out in this American legal Encyclopedia the information on Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia in relation to Local Government Regulatory Power and Function (and in the context of local government law).

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• Local Goverment Regulation
• Local Law Regulation
• Local Government Power

Finding the law: Drugs in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to drugs, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines drugs topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.

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• Underage Drinking