Drug Abuse Prevention

«LS2»The purpose of this research is to examine the issue of drug-abuse prevention. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which prevention is made manifest as a feature of public policy and social experience, and then to explore features of prevention efforts that are aimed at improving the statistics relating to illegal drug trafficking and use.

It appears generally agreed that preventing illegal drug use is connected to efforts at both drug-use education and drug-related law enforcement. The phrase «MDUL»war on drugs«MDNM» is a significant and familiar feature of the American culture, and it is commonly associated with interrupting the supply of illegal drugs to the consumer population either by interdiction of such supplies or by using the law to punish dealers and users of the drugs (Overview, n.d.). However, law-enforcement efforts related to drug prevention are also related to, and intersect with, drug education. Further, such education is not confined to the American public-education system as such.

A number of drug-prevention programs appear to have objectives of government-sponsored social engineering, and underlying such programs is the goal of providing educational information about the risks associated with illegal drug use. The goals have both practical and symbolic features. As an example of symbolic efforts in this regard, consider that in August 1994, President

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ing and awareness on the part of the professional community «MDUL»of its own standards and practices«MDNM». Such implications arise in an examination of various research study methods and reports. Taylor (1994) describes a drug-prevention program undertaken by the Local Housing Authority in Salt Lake County, Utah, to eliminate drug dealing and abuse in the physical plant of the apartment complexes governed by the Authority. Reportedly, undercover police were deployed as a part of a sting operation against dealers working the complexes. However, the undercover operations appear to have revealed the inadequacy of coping with the underlying social mechanisms fueling drug use of which evidence was found. Accordingly, in conjunction with the University of Utah's Social Work department, counseling, tutoring, and group-therapy services were instituted, aimed at identifying, analyzing, and modifying instances and patterns of family and individual pathology. The result appears to have been a significant decline in evidence of drug abuse at the apartment complexes targeted for the program. But what is most suggestive about the study from a professional point is view is that the experience of the study on the line appears to have taught the
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