Abstract
The United States’ criminal justice system currently faces the most severe issue: organized crime. The threat these acts pose to society is grave. All types of crime have an effect, but the threat of illegal narcotics is unmatched. Illicit drug use negatively affects productivity, health, and treatment costs. It serves as the foundation for additional illegal activity in society. As a result, although other criminal activities like the trafficking of people, goods, and services threaten society, they are not as severe as the problems caused by illicit drugs.
The Threat from Illegal Drugs
Introduction
For the American criminal justice system, the issue of drugs in society has grown more complex. Like many others, the most profitable and pervasive organized crime in the nation is the trafficking and distribution of illegal substances. The company’s profits total roughly $110 billion annually (Martin, 2014). Drug trafficking and distribution, including the sale of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana, is the most common crime in the nation. Although trafficking in other products, services, and people negatively influences society, the trade in illicit narcotics has more detrimental repercussions since it serves as the foundation for other organized criminal operations.
Globally distributed organized crime rings pose severe issues for the nation. Because of these crimes’ negative economic and other impacts on the country, policymakers and the general public are outraged by the trafficking of narcotics, people, and weapons, among other crimes. Each criminal activity has its consequences and poses serious risks to society. Nonetheless, there is little question that the illicit drug problem is the most serious due to its effects on its own and as a prerequisite for other types of crime. Because of the production loss, the illicit drug problem directly affects society (Martin, 2014). aimed at providing treatment and assistance for the affected youth.