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Drug abuse can cause many problems for society and individuals. The medical effects are obvious. Drugs can damage the brain, heart, and other important organs that can eventually cause heath problems. When a person introduces a drug into the body (either by nose, mouth, or vien) the drug enters the blood stream and goes directly to the brain, crosses the brain-blood barrier (BBB) and occupies various receptor sites in the brain. This leads to an alteration in the chemical and electrical functioning of the brain. This leads to its eventual organic damage. These changes in the brain are what cause the state of addiction then eventually the body automatically starts craving the damaging drug, leading to a vicious cycle of abuse and further damage. Some symptoms that indicate whether a person in your family or a friend is addicted to drugs are the following: sudden mood changes, unexplained weight and appetite loss, no interest in school, work, or life no interest in themselves: no caring about personal hygenie, clothing, and dressing; always looking disarranged, frequent use of prescription medication depression and mood swings.

The history of drug arrests for adults, from 1970-2003, increased from around 300,000 to 1,400,000, the drug arrests for juveniles through that same time periods remained stagnant at around 100,000.

The number of people incarcerated has substantially increased since the 1970s. imprisonment has not had much of an impast on crime but more so on taxes. Each taxpayer pays an average of $114.81 each year to imprison 41, 628 of their fellow citizens in state prisons. Taxpayers spend more to imprison a person than it would coast to send him to the best state college. The average prisoner costs the tax payers $33,615 a year to imprison. For about $18,000 he could get a college education. Prison population is projected to grow by another 192,000 in five years at a cost of $27.5 billion to build and operate additional