Drugs in the Us

Over the years the DEA and other governments have been trying their hardest to eliminate drug trafficking. It has become more difficult because of Mexico and the states bordering it. That state and those bordering it have their own drug war present that they are trying to fight and get rid of. The more their government tries to improve the more gang violence becomes a bigger issue. Drug wars have left communities in the states of Texas and California in ruins, as the death toll takes a turn for worst at its all-time high. The DEA makes over 30,000 arrests each year related to the trafficking of illegal narcotics. Also over 32 percent of all inmates in the United States were either under the influence of drugs or in possession of drugs at their time of arrest. It was once believe and probably still is that if drug trafficking industry in Mexico was loss the country’s economy would shrink 63 percent. There are over 4,400 DEA officers currently working full time in divisions dedicated to fighting drug sales and drug trafficking across the United States. Drug trafficking is not only illegal but it is also dangerous it causes many threats to a person’s life. A few of those are suicide, homicide, motor-vehicle injury, HIV infections, violence, mental illness and hepatitis.

The contributors to drug trafficking are mostly in Mexico because they have easier access to all the narcotics. In the United States it is hard for someone to just obtain those drugs because the government is so secure on what people do unlike Mexico. Spillover violence is a complicated issue. It is crucial, in order to address the problem with the appropriate programs, resources, and operations, that we understand the difference between the intentional targeting of innocent civilians in the United States, or official U.S. government interests in Mexico or the United States, and actions that are characteristic of violent drug culture, such as the killing of an individual who owes a drug debt to the...