The unemployment rate will drop and our society will not improve but weaken (Wilson 2). This is not the only problem we are going to have to deal with. Incardi and Saum say that there will be an increase in physical and mental problems with people using drugs (Inciardi & Saum 82). A perfect example of people loosing their control over their own bodies due to excessive drug use is seen in the movie Traffic. In this movie the drug Czar’s daughter, Caroline is seen in numerous scenes where she has no control over her body and is doing things that she normally would not do. It shows how she has to resort to many things just to get her next fix or to get money to support her drug habit. It shows in one part of the movie where she has to steal her mother’s jewelry to get money. Caroline was not from a low class family. This just shows how anybody can have a drug problem.Many times drug problems are directly associated with poor people, but this is not the case. Caroline was from a high class, white family. She was an amazing student who had many accomplishments and had many things going for her. She just made some bad choices, which seemed to have a waterfall effect. Her problem started out small and then grew to one where she could not control anymore. The only way to get out of this predicament was to go get help. She could not do it on her own and finally by the end of the movie she gained her father and mother’s support in this matter as well as the people from the clinic. In Legalization Madness it points out the three different theories on why violence is associated with drugs. Psychopharmacological, economically compulsive, and systematic show how and why people resort to crime. One of these suggests that addicts commit crimes because they are not themselves. It is the drugs responsible for their actions but Inciardi and Saum suggest otherwise. They believe if drug use increased that violence would...
