There should be more control over the drugs in Jefferson county, rather than just use of cops, it is crucial to help the addicted. This work argumentatively explores the possible ways of dealing with the problem of drugs in the society and specifically the Jefferson County in Florida, USA. The paper makes use of the Rogerian Model to create an argumentative framework that hints into the means that the Jefferson County can explore to its advantage over the ever-recurrent problem of drug trafficking. The paper additionally takes a deductive approach, posing arguments, rebutting them and thereby exposing the context behind any case. This County, Jefferson, has had many cases of drug traffickers. In the newspapers, it is not a surprise when there is a headline relating to drug usage, sale or other related activity. There have for instance been many reported arrests of individuals who conduct the illegal business of drug dealership. Often, hefty price tags are attached to the noted incidences, such the occurrence reported by Dunigan (2017), where the associated cost of caught drugs was stated as $16,000. This implies that the prevalence of drug dealers in the land is quite high. With this tentatively huge supplies caught by cops, it is deducible that the drug users are similarly high in numbers within the Jefferson community.
The question of how we, therefore, want to address the challenge is as important as any other matter of urgency. In the recent past, the incidences of usage, featuring high cases of overdoses have come to the attention of any individual who cares about societal issues. Deaths have equally resulted in the society, owing their cause to overdoses of drugs which are already by themselves harmful, even in little amounts. For instance, Heroine, Meth, and Cocaine have propagated their presence and usage in the county so abruptly. Results of the rising use of drugs are proportionately rising in the community. These factors wrapped together instigate quick research to control the troubling situation better. The following discussions probe the current means of dealing with the issue highly dreaded in many communities. Notably, the work questions whether the current arrests by cops are sufficient and relevant to help the persistent users of these drugs. Perhaps it’s somewhat plausible to assert that police arrests are not an adequate nor a valid measure, and better means need be instituted to help the addicts. Discussion In the era of a high population of addicted peopl, we may wonder who is it that we ought to blame for the drug-related crimes in the society today, and especially in Jefferson, Florida. Someone is apparently failing the community in the war against the challenge of drug trafficking in the country seemingly sinking into the swampy mess of drugs.
Whether it is the government, at either of its two levels, the various agencies of the government, individual citizens or any other responsible parties, much is still owed to the society. A fundamental part of the communityis already corrupted as a result of the neglect of someone entrusted with protecting the society’s moral fabric. Nevertheless, taking a realist’s standpoint, the uncelebrated is already among within the society. The problem dreaded by any economy, jurisdiction or community is already in the nation today. It is the elephant in the room, and we’ve got to manage it. It is insufficient to think of a way to find out and blame someone. Probably, it would help to think of either how to help them that have already sunk into the quagmire of addiction and the dealers who provide supplies of the drugs. Probably, the main problem at hand is just wholly artificial, and thus a self-made matter. One can justifiably argue that the criminalization of drug usage, and all other associate activity about drugs, whether production or distribution is the only trouble the society has been battling with only worse results. This indicates that the problem at hand can be solved with a single and somewhat effective action of decriminalization of drug usage.
Permitting the free usage and trading of drugs shall, in this case,clear the whole morass around drugs in a moment. There thus won’t exist such a crime as drug trafficking. This is probably the easiest way to end the problem at little or no cost at all. Consequently, there won’t be any need to arrest anyone, carry out court proceedings for trafficker cases. However, this is instead a strategy whose repercussions are way more substantive than the benefits. While there were no drug related cases, it is perhaps unthinkable how the society’s moral fabric shall be tainted. What matters more is not the funds involved, the time likely to be taken in solving the problem. More lasting and worthy solutions are indeed expensive and resource intensive. Decriminalizing drug dealership is only bound to cause more problems especially a likely increase in the adverse effects that result from trafficking. For example, a rise of mental health cases is due, a further increase in addicted people, and managing these is indeed likely to be expensive than the initially avoided cost of committedly arresting the matter. Arresting drug addicts and traffickers is not an efficient way of handling individuals addicted to drug abuse and therefore better control measures should be embraced to deal with victims of addiction. For example, when a corpsarrest a drug trafficker or an addict for that case, little is done as regards removing the person from the problem or the problem from them. Instead, the standardpractice is the implementation of punitive measures on such individuals such as a little charge of fines, some other punishments.
In the list of possible and taken rules, there is indeed no record of any means that serve to rescue the person out of the bondage that they are indeed wading in, and thus these measures all amount to fruitless deeds which never better the individuals from their situation of struggle. Most of the times, it happens that after the release of the criminal or their payment of fines, they go back and continue with their now primary business of drug dealership. However, with the police arresting individuals caught practicing in drug trafficking, entirelysome benefits result and to some extent the problem is attenuated. When an individual is for example arrested for dealing in drugs, the arrest by itself warns other uncaught individuals to cease from the erosive trade. Furthermore, when the suspect is charged a fine, they suffer such a pinch that either predates on their capability to afford the deal anymore so that they are now paralyzedto ever to do the business in any subsequent episodes. Additionally, arrests provide hints to capturing other culprits involved in the black trade and thereby the company is deflated considerably, though at a gradual pace. Putting the charged criminals behind bars further helps addicted persons quit on the intake through a constriction of supply of the substances.
One of the alternative ways of handling victims of drug abuse is instituting formal means of reclaiming them. For instance, we can make use of mentors and counselors to personally walk with the affected individuals and thereby get to help them out of the bait gradually. This calls for investment in educating individuals to understand the problem in a psychological and physiological perspective correctly. With such relevantlytrained individuals in Jefferson County, the county shouldthen set up centers to bring together victims and mentors for the reclamation process of the persons affected. However, investing in reclaiming the lives of those buried into drug addiction won’t in real sense help abort the progression of the root of the problem. Moreover, this mechanism of just reclaiming persons after they have indulged in the abuse of drugs might instead encourage more abuse of these drugs. It is actually in no way going to help persons to overcome the adopted habit. In such a scenario, the venture is merely a resource-draining experiment whose benefit is not equitable to the spend money, expertise and other resources. Such an extent of insufficiency in capability t contain the social challenge deems the move an infeasible one in eradicating the real matter. It is likely that many people only misuse drugs due to a lack of knowledge about the possible results as well as other relevant dimensions in all idea of drugs. This predicates on the presumed premise that drugs are not dangerous or harmful, but have some degree of good and benefit in them. It then implies that taking the drugs in an informed manner, and in reasonable proportions can help the users in a significant way. For instance, opium has considerable benefits such as its medicinal importance in the management of pain(NIDA, 2017). When used in reasonable dosages, opium can highly help individuals significant on the benefits of adrug such as increased attentiveness, reduction of pain perception especially for cancer patients and other individuals.
The government can, therefore, provide the public with information so that they use the drugs in good amounts and inhabits that reduce any materialization of the negative implications of these drugs. The result would be a happier, more productive and informed society. However, this is neither the ultimate way to the liberation of society from the social problem of drug trafficking. Investing efforts in educating people on the proper usage of drugs for positive results is not likely to have a direct and straightforward effect directly as the previous argument proposes. Most probably, most drug users will emerge with intended or unintended neglect of the learned insights on proper consumption of substances. Moreover, not all drugs have good results. On the converse, themajority of the drugs lead to more evils than good. Additionally, the high addictiveness of opiates and other drugs is likely to grey out any control the person had, and as a result, continue abusing the drugs. The ability of these drugs to also influence the mental capacity and activity of persons can also lead the individuals to worse practices than was initially anticipated. The society is thus to expect worse conduct than has ever been experienced. Following the corrupt nature of themajority of drugs, creativity, inventions, and innovativeness can sufficiently solve the long-time nightmare(NIDA, 2017).
Through scientific processes, non harmful substitutes can be developed to counter the substances currently referred to as drugs, and whose pleasant results instigate individuals to abuse. Extracts of these drugs, in small and safe amounts, can be added to healthy products such as beverage drinks, to produce a similar effect in a non-harmful way. This way the attention will in the course of time divert from the traditional sedative and other drug categories to the new manageable products. However, the production of equitable substitutes might not draw the attention of everyone in public. This move would also encourage production of the traditional drug to provide the extracts, hence causing a vicious cycle. It is preferable that the society offers other forms of assistance to those deeply addicted to drug use. The consumption, production, sale, and usage of drugs must rather be out-phased. It is a challenging activity to make addicted individuals stop the consumption of such drugs, no matter how close they were to you. It is also equally hard to completely deter any entrance of such drugs into the society, or their production too. It is thus prudent to educate the general public on how drug abuse is just but evil in the community.
Persons would, in this case, cease from the usage thereof, by making of good life choices, and there won’t be many addictions to act on. Nevertheless, it is not possible to ascertain the conformance of individuals to any such education. Indeed, this is not a new recommendation, but it still hasn’t resolved the problem at hand. Perhaps the government could just work harder to inspect all products entering the country and restrict border access. It could also be of importance to arrest dealers, take them through reclamation programs and save their condition. In a nutshell, and as noted in the discussion, it is not sufficient to rely on any means as a free help out of drug trafficking. Even though addressing affected persons is a logical course of action, police activity is still useful in containing the situation. Multiple mechanisms can perhaps reduce the social evil.
