Heroin, prescription pain pills top drug threat in the US

Chuck Rosenberg told reporters at a pen and pad session in Washington Wednesday that “I think there’s something to” the concept known as the Ferguson effect, which maintains that police have stopped engaging with the public in the same way as scrutiny of their interactions with minorities increased over the past year.

Rosenberg’s comments accompany the 2015 DEA National Drug Threat Assessment Summary and the filing of a Senate bill by 2016 presidential candidate Sen.

“I rely on the chiefs and the sheriffs who are saying in that they have seen or heard behavioral changes among the men and women of their forces”, Rosenberg asserted Wednesday. “So combined those two things account for two-thirds of the overdose deaths”, said DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg.

Rosenberg stated that there are component parts of marijuana that could be used medicinally, but smoking the leaf is not safe as medicine. “We must reach young people at an even earlier age, and teach them about its many dangers and horrors”. However, 15% of DEA field districts said that CPDs were the greatest drug threat in their area-down from 28% in 2013.

Currently, 23 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing a few use of medical marijuana, while Washington state, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. permit recreational marijuana use.

Here in the USA, affiliated and violent gangs are increasingly a threat to the safety and security of our communities.

Heroin availability is up across the country, as are abusers, overdoses, and overdose deaths. Law enforcement nationwide report a significant spike in heroin abuse as a result of prescription opioid addiction.

According to the latest figures available, 46,471 people died of a drug overdose in 2013 while vehicle accidents killed 35,369 people, followed by 33,636 deaths by firearms. More people abuse prescription medication than cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, MDMA and PCP combined and prescription drug deaths have outpaced those of cocaine and heroin combined since 2002. Much of the proceeds of the sale of designer synthetic drugs from China flow to Middle Eastern countries such as Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.