...White 1 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice. Their main goal is to combat drug smuggling in the United States. The DEA is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing coexisting jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and also Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Unlike some federal agencies, the DEA has a sole responsibility for coordinating and pursuing drug investigations not only on American soil but abroad as well. The DEA was formed on July 1, 1973 proceeded by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement. It proposed the creation of a single...
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...United States Drug Enforcement Administration President Richard Nixon established the United States Drug Enforcement Agency in 1973. At this time and point in American history, President Nixon was fixated on creating a “single unified command to combat ‘an all-out global war on the dug menace.’” At its time of creation the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) had only 1,470 special agents and a budget of seventy-five million dollars. Today the DEA has a budget of $2.02 billion and nearly 5,000 special agents. (Vanita, 2010) The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration is to “to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction.” (Unknown, 2008) On the government website, the Drug Enforcement Administration spells out nine specific responsibilities for enforcing the controlled substance laws and regulations. These responsibilities include but are not limited to investigating and preparing for the prosecution of violators, enforcement of the provisions in the controlled substances act, and a liaison with the United Nations, Interpol and other organizations on matters relating to international drug control programs. (Unknown, 2008) The Drug Enforcement Administration is separated into three basic components in regards to its leadership structure. At the top of this leadership structure is the administrator and the deputy administrator...
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...State College How War On Drugs Effects Everyone Gregory Mullen Police Administration 1 Frank Aiello 4/23/13 There have been many issues of drug trafficking and decriminalizing substances like cocaine and marijuana for many years throughout a lot of countries’. There has been a huge timeline of situations that we have experienced and faced with during the 70s through the 21st century. This information about to be given just shows how easy it is to get mixed in with drugs. The 60s led up to the 70s of drug war conflicts between people in the world. But before the 70s the government just thought of drug use was a social disease and would die out soon enough before it became a problem. In 1971 president Nixon said that drugs were too much of an issue to not recognize it throughout the U.S. so he announced the War on Drugs. That was four decades ago and today it still is a major issue in today’s society and does not seem to be taken control of. He also said that it is “public enemy number 1.” Even though in 1972 the prisoner rate had fallen dramatically throughout the U.S. In 1973 Nixon created the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) which was a statement to put an end to drug trafficking and to enforce all of the public safety departments to start cracking down on this particular subject. The budget in 1973 was 74.9 billion dollars (Drug Enforcement Administration). “By 1975 the Columbian police took 600 grams of cocaine, then the drug traffickers took action and...
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...manage this problem. White Collar Crime: Abuse of Controlled Substances The abuse of controlled substances is so underrated in our community that a lot of people do not realize how they are being affected by it. I chose to write this topic because I am doing an internship with the Drug Enforcement Administration and I got a first hand look at the magnitude of this problem. This issue is important because we as citizens are all being affected by this issue and most people don’t realize it because it is not in the media as much as street drugs. After reading this paper, the reader will have more insight on what controlled substances are, the type of fraud that is being committed involving controlled substances, and the consequences of committing these fraudulent acts. Literature Review What is A Controlled Substance? Controlled substances are any drug or substance that can be placed into one of five different schedules taking into consideration on whether they have accepted medical use, abuse potential, and likelihood of causing dependence. The higher the schedule is, the less likely the drug is to become addictive or to be abused. Schedule five controlled substances have a low potential for abuse compared to schedule four controlled...
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...The War on Drugs 1-29-10 War on Drugs Richard Nixon started the war on drugs in 1971; he declared the drug problem to be a national emergency. One of the initial problems with drugs started when the soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to Heroin. In an attempt to control the problem, Nixon went hard to work in an attempt control the “problem”. In 1973 Richard Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to form a group with a single goal to combat the drug problem. At the time the budget was less than $75 million and has increased dramatically today. The War on Drugs is costing us a substantial amount of money every year and are we even winning? My opinion is that we are not winning. Of course I don’t think severely harmful drugs, like Meth, should be legalized but there are many things being done that are not in the best interest of everyone. We are spending extensive amounts that could be used to better schools and other organizations in need. Over sixty percent of the people in prison are there for victimless, non-violent crimes and do you honestly think they are not finding ways to obtain drugs and other substances while in prison? Yes, the government says they are winning the war on drugs especially in the cocaine industry but really there is so many users I don’t see how the government can really say they are winning. The next issue is the fact that marijuana is illegal; there has been no scientific evidence that marijuana is harmful...
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...Data Management Project – Pharmacy Management System Requirement Analysis Background At the pharmacy centre of Queens Hospital, New York, pharmacists dispenses the drugs prescribed by the physician to the patients. These drugs were prescribed by the physician in written prescription form. All the prescriptions along with the dispensing information were maintained in the form of written records. These written records were used to track the medical history of the patients. It was very difficult to maintain these details in the form of written records and retrieve them whenever needed. So, the Queens Hospital officials contacted us to give a proposal for work to be done on an electronic database. On December 5 2014, a meeting was held with the health care professionals of Queens Hospital. During the meeting we were able to obtain enough information to provide the health care professionals of Queens Hospital with a Requirements Document. This document outlines the user requirements for a proposed electronic pharmacy records tracking system. Requirements General Constraints, Assumptions, Dependencies, and Guidelines The following items present the general constraints, assumptions, dependencies, and guidelines that are required upon the implementation of the electronic pharmacy record database. * A general knowledge of basic computer skills is necessary to use this product. * Most of the times health care professionals doesn’t have core knowledge on computers. So...
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...Department of Justice IG/GAO Report Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 CONTROLS OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING NEEDS IMPROVEMENT 3 Recommendations 4 Management Response 4 REPORTING OF NON-VALUED EVIDENCE 4 Recommendations 5 Management Response 5 INADEQUATE FUNDS MANAGEMENT CONTROL 5 Recommendations 5 Management Response 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 \ DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IG/GAO REPORT INTRODUCTION The Department of Justice (DOJ) is led by the Attorney General and consists of forty-two agencies, which cover a variety of responsibilities. DOJ prosecutes federal law offenders and represents the U.S. Government in court. DOJ is responsible for enforcing the law and defending the interests of the United States. The objective of the Department of Justice’s internal control program is to provide reasonable assurance that operations are effective, efficient, and comply with applicable laws and regulations; financial reporting is reliable; and assets are safeguarded against waste, loss, and unauthorized use. The Department identifies issues of concern through a strong network of oversight councils and internal review teams. These include the Department’s Senior Assessment Team, the Justice Management Division’s Internal Review and Evaluation Office and Quality Control and Compliance Group, and Departmental component internal review teams. The Department also considers reports by the Office of the Inspector General...
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...America’s Drug Problem: Trafficking Effects By Harry Jenkins Eng 122 Dr. Nelson August 29, 2011 Some things are simply not going to ever go anywhere because of the nature of them and the nature of people. Some harmful substances that people are addicted to will not be vanquished by the government as long as they have an illegal option to procure such substances. The issue at hand is drug trafficking in the United States and how to handle it. The government spends billions of dollars each year trying to fight the war on drugs and drug trafficking rings still come away with 321.6 billion dollars from sales. The DEA alone has an annual budget of two billion dollars, but they only cut the drug money profit by 17.7 billion over the past five years (Agency, 2004). While losing a war by such a wide margin, it is hard to believe anyone thinks things are getting any better. The government tried prohibition in the 1920’s and the crime rates spiked because people produced, smuggled, sold, and consumed the banned substance. The same goes for drugs. The argument about legalizing drugs has a push-pull correlation and always will. However, the reasons why drugs should be legalized have a stronger defense than why they shouldn’t be. The most heated argument out about drugs as of now is the legalization of marijuana. The financial benefits of legalizing marijuana alone are worth it in the eyes of the right person. The state of California would generate a tax revenue of...
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...United States Drug Sentencing for those who break the law Tina Kelson ENG122 Lesa Hadley April 4, 2011 United States Drug Sentencing for those who break the law In America today there is a big controversy with drug trafficking. What is drug trafficking? Drug trafficking is the sale and distribution of illegal drugs. What is obtaining dangerous drugs mean? The researcher found is intending to aid a person to obtain dangerous drugs and practice outside of their scope of practice. The topic the researcher has chosen is how to reduce drug trafficking in the United States. The author will focus on how drug dealers need to get harsher sentences then they do know and this may help reduce drug trafficking in the United States. The examiner has also determined that harsher sentencing is important factor in controlling to get the most serious drugs off the streets, for example, LSD, Heroin, and Cocaine. The researcher will conduct their analysis on harsher sentences for drug possessors, those who obtain dangerous drugs, and law enforcement agents who are charged with drug trafficking. Should those who possessed drugs or those who obtain illegal drugs and those who are involved bringing it across ours borders spend more time in prison then those who commit rape or rob a bank? America needs to impose tougher sentencing on those who chose to break the law and this will help reduce drug trafficking in America...
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...war on drugs, marijuana is one of the biggest enemies. And since alcohol and tobacco, two life threatening substances, are legal it is a relevant question to ask why marijuana is illegal. The taxpayers of America can partly answer this question when they fill out their tax forms and when they hear the hash rhetoric used against marijuana by the government. The fact that marijuana is illegal is sufficiently caused by the amount of money, jobs, and pride invested in the drug war. In other words, the government cannot turn back now. In order to demonstrate this cause, the difference between illegal and legal substances (specifically alcohol and marijuana) must be abolished. Alcohol, as we all know, was once illegal. The reason that it was illegal was because the ill effects of alcohol led many people to fight for the prohibition cause. Some of these ill effects are direct and some alter the behavior and motor skills of the drinker, helping them do things they would not usually do. More often than not, the direct effects result from heavy drinking, like "depression is frequently diagnosed in alcoholics" (Rittenhouse 140). But just getting drunk can do serious harm. "Accidental trauma forms the major cause of brain damage from alcohol" (140) would indicate alcohol as a threat to human health. Marijuana on the other hand seems a little out of place in its classification as illegal. The source previously cited notes that, "Although it is classified as a Schedule I drug for regulatory...
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...SOC 402 Week 2 Quiz To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/SOC-402-ASH/SOC-402-Week-2-Quiz 1.The activities of organized crime include ___________. gambling prostitution drugs loan-sharking all of the above 2. A measure of the average change in prices of all types of consumer goods and services is called ________________. consumer price index U.S. economic status the level of poverty the index of expenses 3.The survey that asks victims about the crimes committed against them is called ________. The Uniform Crime Report The Study of Crime in America The National Crime Victimization Survey The National Gang Crime Survey 4.The Uniform Crime Report is published annually by the _____________. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 5.Rainwater’s concept of the “expressive strategy” involves ___________. apathy crime the manipulation of others isolation and withdrawal 6. Ways of living that enable people to adapt to their punishing, depriving reality are called _________. affective strategies adaptive strategies survival strategies social strategies 7. An influential factor in creating an awareness of the problem of poverty was a book entitled _______________. The Cost of Poverty The Other America If You Saw What I Saw The Price of Poverty 8. The concept of “routine activities approach to crime” was developed...
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...War on Drugs: Take A Stand: Yes, No. Maybe! Learning Team B Kathy Bell Shamlin, Kenneth Fishman, Shorunda Hinton: Instructor: Ms.S BSHS / 355 September 4, 2015 Social Policy Paper War on Drugs; Take A Stand: The Case for Reforming Drug Policy: Most of us cannot imagine a place where it is legal to sell, buy, and use drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, crystal meth, ecstasy. The mere thought of these substances being legal like tobacco and alcohol seems absurd since the War on Drugs, the prevailing approach to drug policy in the United States is in its fifth decade. Yet there are advocates, many of them well respected authorities and government officials, of drug policy reform, the decriminalization of drugs, and even legalization. Has the War on Drugs been lost? Do we need to look at drug use and addiction as a public health problem instead of a crime problem? Should we focus attention and funds on those who use drugs or fight to keep drugs from coming into the United States from other countries? “ We believe the Global War on Drugs is Now Causing More Harm Than Drug Abuse Itself.” That was the half-page headline of a two-page add in The New York Times on June 8th, of 1998. The heading was followed by a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The letter pointed out that “U.N. agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry...
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...History of marijuana Early Marijuana Use Marijuana has been used as an agent for achieving euphoria since ancient times; it was described in a Chinese medical reference traditionally considered to date from 2737 B.C. Its use spread from China to India and then to N Africa and reached Europe at least as early as A.D. 500. Marijuana Plants / Cannabis The first direct reference to a cannabis product as a psychoactive agent dates from 2737 BC, in the writings of the Chinese emperor Shen Nung. The focus was on its powers as a medication for rheumatism, gout, malaria, and oddly enough, absent-mindedness. Mention was made of the intoxicating properties, but the medicinal value was considered more important. In India though it was clearly used recreationally. The Muslims too used it recreationally for alcohol consumption was banned by the Koran. It was the Muslims who introduced hashish, whose popularity spread quickly throughout 12th century Persia (Iran) and North Africa. Marijuana in America In 1545 the Spanish brought marijunana to the New World. The English introduced it in Jamestown in 1611 where it became a major commercial crop alongside tobacco and was grown as a source of fiber. By 1890, hemp had been replaced by cotton as a major cash crop in southern states. Some patent medicines during this era contained marijuana, but it was a small percentage compared to the number containing opium or cocaine. It was in the 1920’s that marijuana began to catch on...
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...HINA KHOWAJA 20676 B.E CASE STUDY 9A Drug testing of employees Summary: john lawn, the former director of the drug enforcement administration (DEA), supported mandatory drug testing, calling it “critical [i]n those occupation where either the public trust or public safety is involved”. He listed doctors, pilots, airlines, truck drivers, teachers as examples and urge the profession to develop their own rules and regulations for drug testing. The percentage of employers who test employees for drug increased from 22% in 1987 to 67% in 2001.some employees have questioned the accuracy of the test and some employers note that employees can temper with the test result. Because of the accusation and confusion the department of health and human services is expected to issue its employees drug-testing guidelines by the end of the year. The guidelines will dictate certain types of jobs for which employees must always be tested (pilot, conductors) and also provide procedures for conducting tests. The federal government has Supreme Court approval for 113 drug testing programs but state law regulates private employer in the administration of their test. Some states limit testing to safety-sensitive jobs, other states require probable cause as a prerequisite for testing employees. A seatle equipment company worker complains: “ I am so tired of hearing that I have right to privacy. What about our right to safety?” But Boston executives maintain, “Individual rights are too precious...
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...the psychoactive effects on the abuser), is not a new phenomenon, and this high potency should not be used as a reason to keep marijuana illegal. Marijuana is not the same drug it was 20 years ago. Special fertilizers, plant hormones and steroids, carbon dioxide and advanced indoor horticulture techniques are used by the informed grower to "push" the plant to produce the highest grade, most potent variety of marijuana, sinsemilla. Because of its potency, domestic marijuana is the most highly prized cannabis product in the world. In 1970, the average THC content of a marijuana plant was 1.5 percent. The THC content of today's sinsemilla variety ranges from 8 percent to 20 percent. Today's marijuana is a drug that is significantly more potent than it was during the Woodstock era. The writer then states that "if the Government really believes that stronger varieties of marijuana are less desirable, then it has one more reason to support legalization. If cultivation of marijuana were legal, growers would not be pressed to produce the strongest possible product, and health authorities would be able to regulate its production and strength." This logic doesn't hold up. Why would a marijuana abuser opt for a less potent drug when stronger varieties are available? As health regulators distributed the lesser drug, illegal growers would be pushing their higher potency marijuana. More to the point, potency, although a factor, is not the only reason that marijuana should remain illegal...
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