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Week 3 - Discussion
Drug abuse has been
defined as a significant social problem. This discussion provides an
opportunity to examine this problem as well as the ways in which our reliance
on punishment as a solution to drug abuse has changed over the years, given the
different populations now impacted by the problem.
For this discussion, review the following resources:
·
War
on Drugs Failure Gives Way To Treatment in States, Cities (Links to an
external site.)
·
Race, poverty and punishment: The impact of criminal sanctions on
racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality
·
When
Addiction has a White Face (Links to an external site.)
·
Recommended: Chasing Heroin (Links to
an external site.) (for
transcript click
here (Links to an external site.))
After reviewing the required
resources for this discussion, please address each of the following:
a.
How has the issue of drug addiction and the ‘war on drugs’ changed over
the past 20 years? In particular, how have the populations impacted by
drugs changed?
b.
Is drug addiction treated as a crime or as a medical issue in our
society? In your informed opinion, which should it be? Defend your
answer using the resources provided.
c.
In your informed opinion, what do you think is the best course of action
to address the drug addiction epidemic in the U.S.? Should it differ by
which drug is being abused? Should it differ by the population using the
drugs?
d.
Drug addiction is increasingly impacting whites, women, and middle/upper
class people. How have these changes impacted the social construction of
drug addiction in our society? In other words, how have these changes
impacted the ways in which drug abuse is or is not criminalized and how it is
treated by the criminal justice system?
USA 
India