Finally, It comes after a much-awaited time where we’ve witnessed huge turmoil and a democratic circus at the Capitol hills.
In recent years our country has lost so many precious lives and the majority was drug-related issues. Our policymakers never took action as required to counter drug addiction.
Right now it is one of the biggest issues the Americans are battling with and don’t believe in words without factual data and data shows a surging number of family disputes, loss of employment, financial obstacles, and casualties related to drug addiction. For better insight, in 1969, a renowned psychiatrist Dr. Robert DuPont supervised an analytical study of urine examination of people convicted in D.C. jail and what he found is a tip of today’s reality.
Dr. DuPont traced heroin to 44% of all the convicted criminals. It was the time when he introduced a Methadone Treatment Program to treat heroin addicts.
The evolution of drug policies started in the late 18th century.
Opiate addiction was clutching the modern American Society, increased by 0.73 addicts per 1000 people to a whopping 4.59 per 1000. It was 1880 when the USA and the dynasty of China came to agree upon banning the shipment of opium between them.
Later in 1906 US drug policy allowed a precisely regulated use of drugs to deal with pain such as cocaine, heroin, morphine, cannabis, etc.
In 1914, the first time in the history of America, the government imposed a ban on the domestic distribution of drugs, known as the Harrison Act. In 1919 U.S. administrators came with a prohibition law against alcohol later followed by some significant policies like 1930 when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics came into existence. The 1951 Boggs Act implemented fourfold mandatory penalties, 1970, Controlled Substance Act (CSA) legislated by Congress and became the federal U.S. drug policy which regulated manufacturing, import, and possession of specific substances. 1973, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) established to implement law enforcement, 1979 U.S. recorded 25 million Americans used illegal drugs. 1986 Anti-drug abuse act was authorized by Congress, in 1990 Solomon-Lautenberg amendment enacted into law which proposed a six months suspension of driver’s license for using an illegal drug. 2014, three U.S. States Alaska, Minnesota, and Oregon legalized possession, consumption, and sale of marijuana.
After these efforts, it becomes really important to us that how we protect our society from Drug Addiction and its consequences if people vote for the decriminalization of acts for an existential threat like drug abuse. Almost 21 million Americans have an addiction problem, yet only 1 out of 10 receive treatment.
Drug overdose deaths have increased by almost 300% since 1990. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 Americans succumbed to overdosing on a drug. Alcohol and Drug Addiction Costs the U.S. economy over $600 billion every year. In 2017. Now American people and society need well-constructed law enforcement by the newly formed government to ensure the safety of the Americans.
TLC- The Luminous Care wishing the best to the government to initiate the process to reformed drug laws to protect America from this homeland threat.
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