TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 7 P20

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 7 P20 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 178 NARCOTICS ACTS Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Control Act By the late 1960s illicit drug use in the United States had become widespread. Moreover use of narcotics became more open causing concerns among many communities law enforcement personnel and legislators. Existing narcotics laws were failing to curb the usage of narcotics drugs. For example about half of the amphetamines and barbiturates produced legally in the United States were being distributed through illegal means. In response to these problems Congress in 1970 enacted the Controlled Substances Act CSA as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act Pub. L. No. 91-513 84 Stat. 1242. The CSA developed a complex regulatory system designed to control the distribution of drugs. It established five schedules of drugs with each schedule representing the degree to which the drug is likely to be abused and the level of accepted medical use. Most narcotics such as marijuana cocaine and heroin fall within Schedule I which includes drugs with high potential for abuse and with no accepted medical use. The CSA has been amended dozens of times since its original enactment. In 1974 Congress enacted the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974 Pub. L. No. 93-281 88 Stat. 124 which allows practitioners to dispense narcotics for detoxification and similar purposes. Other amendments to the CSA have established federally funded prevention and treatment programs including drug-awareness education programs. Anti-Drug Acts and National Drug Control Policy Despite Congress s efforts to strengthen narcotics laws through the CSA use and abuse of narcotics remained a major national problem in the 1980s. By 1984 narcotics were a part of an 80 million industry in the United States and use of illicit drugs had reached epidemic proportions according to findings by Congress. Law enforcement officers were able to interdict only five to 15 percent of the drugs entering into the country. Moreover statistics showed a

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