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Please see the discussion on the talk page. | Demand reduction is a term used by drug control authorities to refer to educational and other efforts aimed at stopping people from seeking drugs, as opposed to cutting off their supply. Problems with the war on drugs have arisen over the years of prohibition, and moral panics in particular have lead many to believe that illicit drugs must stay illicit in order to achieve their objective of keeping illegal recreational drug use a fringe activity. However, yearly drug trafficking earnings average to about 60 billion dollars and range as high as 100 billion dollars a year in spite of these efforts. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ...
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A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ...
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Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events...
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Most anti-drug campaigns focus on illegal drugs and not on legal drugs, such as prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Medical use of drugs and responsible consumption of alcohol is very much accepted in society. However, illegal drugs, particularly marijuana, can be almost described as harmless while alcohol and tobacco destroy the lives of millions more than both cocaine and heroin. Many organisations, including national organisations, have criticised particularly the law-enforcement-driven taboo on marijuana, with many medical professionals endorsing medical marijuana. A prescription drug is a medication that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ...
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group. ...
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Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...
This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...
A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom declared as sacred and forbidden; breaking of the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society. ...
Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...
Cannabis sativa extract. ...
Effects on the war on drugs Many are under the impression that law enforcement is winning the war on drugs. They also assume that if enough drug dealers are arrested, our children and streets will be safe. However, it can be argued that its not the dealers who are causing the "problem" but rather the demand for drugs that give an incentive to drug dealers to step in and make handsome profits. Use of cocaine for example, as stated in its respective article, "is prevalent across all socioeconomic strata, including age, demographics, economic, social, political, religious, and livelihood. Cocaine in its various forms comes in second only to cannabis as the most popular illegal recreational drug in the United States, and is number one in street value sold each year. The estimated U.S. cocaine market exceeded $35 billion in street value for the year 2003, exceeding revenues by corporations such as AT&T and Starbucks. There is a tremendous demand for cocaine in the U.S. market, particularly among those who are making incomes affording luxury spending, such as single adults and various professionals". For the band, see The Police. ...
Operation Mallorca, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 2005 [1] The War on Drugs is an initiative undertaken by the United States to carry out an all-out offensive (as President Nixon described it) against the prohibited use of certain legally controlled drugs. ...
This article is about the drug cocaine. ...
Just Say No "Just say no" drug campaigns, scare tactics, and misleading information about drugs has had little or no effect on the consumption of drugs. It can be argued that drugs (illicit) have done nothing except grow in popularity and gain more acceptance, particularly with teenagers and young adults. Programs such as D.A.R.E. have been highly criticized, even by national and government organizations. The anti-drug campaigns are largely regarded as ineffective in curbing general illicit drug use. Drug Abuse Resistance Education, better known as DARE or D.A.R.E., is an international education program, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, which seeks to discourage interest in illegal drugs, gangs, and violence. ...
How to prevent dangerous drug use? The evidence seems to be that there will always be a percentage of people taking or experimenting with illegal drugs, and another percentage who don't. The answer seems to be in harm reduction, for example telling clubbers and ravers who frequently dance the night away and mix drugs that they are taking huge health risks and must take steps to prevent or mitigate dehydration, water intoxication, and drug mixing that give MDMA (ecstasy) its reputation as a dangerous drug. Discouraging drug use and informing people about true dangers, such as cocaine's addictive properties, while taxing drugs and selling them in pharmacies or like establishments may ultimately lead to the vanishing of illegal drug dealing and the black market in illegal drugs that gives the criminal organizations involved in manufacturing, shipping and distributing them those astronomical incentives. Harm reduction is a philosophy of public health intended to be a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain lifestyle choices. ...
Dehydration is the removal of water (hydor in ancient Greek) from an object. ...
Water intoxication (also known as hyperhydration or water poisioning) is a potentially fatal medical condition in which an individuals intake of water exceeds a safe amount. ...
ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ...
The black market or underground market is the part of economic activity involving illegal dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise or services (for example sexual services in many countries) illegally. ...
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