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Article: America's Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking, & Organized Crime: Chapter I The Impact of the Drug Trade
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Chapter I The Impact of the Drug Trade
Drug trafficking is the most serious organized crime problem
in the world
today. The drug trade generates billions of dollars for organized
crime each
year, imposing incalculable costs on individuals, families, communities,
and
governments worldwide. But drug trafficking is only part of a broader,
unified phenomenon, which also includes the illicit use of drugs.
It is drug
users who finance organized crime through their drug purchases, and
it is they
who must accept responsibility for the broad range of costs associated
with
the drug industry.
Drug abuse ruins individual lives, drains billions of dollars
each ...