Alcohol_and_Effects_on_Crime

Alcohol and Effects on Crime Effects of Substance Abuse on Crime The effects of drugs and alcohol on our society are becoming more and more evident as the years pass. Even though drugs and alcohol have been around for centuries, they are becoming more popular. Along with the major drugs like cocaine, crack, and heroin, the alternative or “designer” drugs like ecstasy, and GHB are becoming increasingly popular with the younger generations. Drugs and alcohol can have major effects on a person’s life and of those that are involved with him/her. Today drugs are becoming more like everything else in our society, popular and expensive, which usually instigates criminal activity. When it comes to drugs and alcohol there are many different crimes that are associated with them. Whether it’s selling drugs, stealing to get money for drugs, or committing a crime while on drugs, they are all drug related crimes. As you will see in this paper drugs and alcohol play a major role in crime world. In the United States the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs have had dramatic effects on the number of crimes that alcohol, drugs, drug, crimes, crime, abuse, percent, substance, states, committed, related, effects, under, prison, out, million, inmates, influence, becoming, while, united, seems, popular, number, major, increase, heroin, crack, cocaine, being, arrests, years, year, violent, violations, today, time, somehow, society, programs, points, over, one, just, it’s, involved, history, held, greenfield, figures