Drugs and Crime
Drug Addiction
Crime and Drugs go hand and hand. If there are more people addicted to drugs then there are more people committing crime. It’s a sad realization but one that we have to face. Drug Addiction isn’t something that is going to go away on it’s own. Drug Treatment is the way to overcome addiction.
“We’re seeing people desperately and aggressively trying to get their hands on these pills,” Janet T. Mills, the attorney general in Maine, is cited as saying in a recent New York Times piece. “Home invasions, robberies, assaults, homicides, thefts — all kinds of crimes are being linked to prescription drugs.”
Prescription Drug Abuse is the fastest rising drug abuse problem plaguing the United States. Crime is up and when crime is up property values go down and life becomes a downward spiral.