My Selected Drug is Cocaine
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements.
Your final project should contain the following sections:
- Introduction: Identify the illegal substance you have selected to study. Describe the drug origins, any medicinal purposes as well as any accepted uses originally intended for this drug. Briefly explain the rationale for your selection and the significance of this drug for public safety. In this section, also include:
- An annotated historical timeline in which you highlight:
- The initial discovery of the drug.
- The original intent or use for the drug.
- The prevalence of the use of this drug within society over time.
- The time when it became identified as a dangerous drug.
- The time when it became illegalized.
Your timeline should also address any social or national issues, which occurred and may have contributed to the drug’s popularity within the timeline dates (major wars and conflicts, health trends, social trends, that is, bodybuilding boom of the 1980s with steroids, et cetera).
- Your selected drug and criminal activity. Provide a synopsis of the identified criminal activity associated with the drug. Identify primary offenders (organized crime, drug cartels, etc.), and targeted distributors (illegal weapon purchases, prostitution, gang activity, et cetera). Be sure to cite your sources for referenced research and historical data.
- Your selected drug and policy regulation and enforcement efforts. Discuss the ways in which public policy and drug enforcement efforts have combined in an attempt to regulate the drug. Highlight successful policies as well as policy failures at local, state, and federal levels. Evaluate the criteria that contributed to both successes and failures. What net impact have these policies had on the control of the drug? Discuss your drug in light of the debate to legalize controlled drugs. Provide resources to support your analysis.
- Your selected drug and prevention and treatment efforts. Discuss the drug prevention and treatment efforts that have been used to control the use of the drug. Highlight successful programs as well as program failures at local, state, and federal levels. Evaluate the criteria that contributed to successes and failures. What net impact have these programs had on the spread or use of the drug? Cite sources that support your analysis.
- Your Interview. Your interview is intended to provide local context to all of the above analysis. Describe the agency you targeted for your interview and your rationale for choosing it. Describe the role it plays in illegal drug control, eradication, corrections, or counseling. Based on your interview, discuss the relationship between local efforts at policy, enforcement, prevention, or treatment and the efforts that you have described generally above. How do you see them fitting together? How successful are the efforts? What are the challenges? Include as much data and conversation from the interview as you can, focusing your analysis on your selected illegal drug.
- Conclusion. Provide a brief summary of what you have learned through your research. What do you see as the future direction for policy, enforcement, prevention, and treatment for your topic drug?
Project Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th Edition) style and formatting.
- Number of resources: Minimum of 10 resources in addition to the textbook.
- Length of paper: 10–15 typed double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Arial, 10 point.
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