Some may look at the drug epidemic in this society and say that it is not their personal problem. But, in light of recent studies linking crime and drugs, it seems like it is rapidly becoming everyone’s problem.

The number one thing that male arrestees have in common is drug use. A new report from the government shows that the majority of men who have been arrested test positive for illegal drugs.

In 2011, the Office of National Drug Control Policy found that more than 60 percent of adult males tested positive for at least one illegal drug within 48 hours of being arrested. In New York, the study found that nearly half of all males arrested in Manhattan tested positive for marijuana and nearly 25 percent tested positive for cocaine. And, shockingly enough, in certain areas as high as 81 percent of adult males arrested tested positive for drugs at the time of the arrest.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has put attention on the issue stating that this is not only a crime issue but a major public health concern.

And while it was always obvious that drug use and crime were linked this new study has put a new face on the connection between the two. There is also national attention now being placed on removing this problem from communities across the country and improving public safety.

Right now about 23 percent of violent crimes and property crimes, including home burglaries, were committed by people who tested for an illegal substance including marijuana, heroin and methamphetamines.

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Drug rehab and prevention experts across the country have weighed in on this connection and the growing drug problem and its link to crime in the U.S. One prevention expert with 20 years’ experience in the drug prevention field broke the problem down with a simple question.

The man visited over 200 schools and would ask the question to teens and young adults:

“How many of you have seen someone take drugs and then do something they wouldn’t ordinarily do if they were straight.”

Their response to that question was almost always a show of 90% or more hands.

If you think about it, we’ve probably all seen somebody drink too much alcohol or abuse drugs and do something silly or stupid due to the fact that their inhibitions are so lowered. Drugs remove a person from their native sense of consequences. To the person who’s high on drugs, they are in the moment with no consequences for their actions. Given this fact, you can see why so many crimes are committed by people when they are under the influence of a drug.

Being under the influence is now statistically proven as a major catalyst to crime and criminal acts. Now that the problem is known, the solution should be easy: its drug rehab.

Effective drug rehab can completely eliminate a substance abuse problem and turn someone from a criminal to a drug free, ethical and productive member of society. As a result drug related crime; really the majority of all crime goes down and this creates a safer community for everyone.

For more information on effective drug rehab or the current statistical relation between male arrestees and drug use contact us today.

References:

http://securitymanagement.com/news/most-men-arrested-test-positive-drugs-009874
http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/criminal_justice/161442/federal-report–majority-of-arrested-men-test-positive-for-drugs
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/17/data-suggests-drug-treatment-can-lower-us-crime/#ixzz1xAwuqBSK