Drug smuggling, drug manufacturing, drug selling, drug possession, and drug use are in themselves crimes. Drug-related offenses are those to which a drug's pharmacological effects contribute, such as violent behavior due to diminished behavioral control and paranoid delusions; they are also offenses motivated by the user's need to obtain money to support continued drug use, as well as offenses ...
Drug Overdoses & Deaths | Drug Use Among Youth | Marijuana Use & Addiction | Opioid Epidemic | Marijuana Incarceration | Fentanyl Abuse | Prescription Drug Abuse | Alcohol Abuse Total Drug Arrest Statistics. 2020 was a year where Americans saw a significant drop in the number of drug arrests nationwide.
Robert P. Gandossy, Jay R. Williams, Jo Cohen, and Henrick J. Harwood, Drugs and Crime: A Survey and Analysis of the Literature, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, May 1980, NCJ 159074. Although NIJ ended ADAM in 2003, the Office of National Drug Control Policy operated ADAM II from 2007 to 2013.
Drugs are sometimes implicated in crime sprees, and sometimes the most horrific acts occur when users are off their faces. Whether it’s due to a hallucination or a seriously altered state of mind, those using drugs can cause terrible damage and change the lives of their victims forever.
WASHINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities. Last fall, DEA initiated a data-driven approach using national crime statistics and CDC data to identify hot spots of drug-related violence and overdose deaths across the country ...
Drug and Violent Crime. Drugs and violent crime often go hand in hand, which is why tackling both is a top priority for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
The District of Massachusetts is involved in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program as well as DOJ's Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.
However, violent gangs, like MS-13, continue to threaten the peace and security of many communities in Massachusetts through murder, intimidation, and drug dealing. The U.S. Attorney's Office devotes tremendous resources to disrupting and prosecuting violent transnational and localized gangs, as well as individual violent criminals, ...
However, violent gangs, like MS-13, continue to threaten the peace and security of many communities in Massachusetts through murder, intimidation, ...