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Drug abuse has widely been debated on which type of problems it creates. Is drug abuse a health problem or a crime problem? Support your answer.

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Drug Abuse is it a health problem or Crime problem.

This question is a very good question. The following are points to help you formulate your position on this topic.

i. drug use/abuse becomes a serious addiction in which many people will go to extreme lengths to feed the addiction, this means armed robbery , drug traffic ing, prostitution etc.

See: Goldstein, P. (2003). The drugs/violence nexus. Crime: Critical ...

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