by Melody Schneider

Created on: July 19, 2010   Last Updated: August 05, 2010

It does not take a Brain Surgeon to figure out that drug abuse and crime pretty much for the most part go hand in hand.  There have been extensive studies done at different prisons and the inmates were interviewed over time and nearly every inmate that was serving time in the prison system had committed a crime to either support a drug habit or to get supplies to manufacture more drugs.  

If for some reason they did not have direct relationship like previously stated, it does end up being that the inmate had committed a crime to pay bills or try to get their rent caught up or to feed their family but the underlying reason that they were in that financial hardship was because they had used their money on drugs beforehand causing a person to commit a crime.  

So really if you think about it, most crimes are directly and indirectly caused by drug abuse at one time or another in the person's life and causing a viscous cycle of drug abuse and crime. When homicide detectives get down to the “nitty gritty”,  their statistics come out to be a very high number of homicides are due to drug trafficking and or caused by being under the influence of narcotics.  

So there you go, drug abuse is draining our system and is running rampant everywhere in the world and it would be nice to be able to stop all of this crime but what really needs to happen is to stop the problem before it starts and that would cost a lot of money to start a world-wide prevention program.  However in the long run, there would most likely be a lot less inmates that are presently draining our system by housing all of them and providing meals and clothing for them and we the tax payers end up paying for all of this, and it makes no difference how many are locked up. 

The crime is still happening on the outside because the real problem of the issue has not been addressed and taken care of. So really if the drug abuse is still happening and no steps towards prevention and intervention are ever aggressively put into practice and implemented, we will never get rid of these random and heinous acts of senseless violence and crime.  

Our grandparents are at risk for having their homes broke into or worse having them get hurt by somebody just wanting to rob their medicine cabinet and that person that is committing that crime on our grandparents is doing it because of his drug addiction.  Homes and businesses are getting robbed all the time and

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