Affiliation:
1. Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science (SIMATS), Chennai
Abstract
Drug abuse is a notable and significant problem world wide. In other words , our society face a lot of challenges due to drug abuse and related crimes. The section on drugs, alcohol and crime demonstrates that the relationships between drugs and crime are not straight forward the particulars, the commonly held view that the crime committed by problematic drug uses can tragedy explained by their need to finance the purchase of illegal drugs users can largely not be clearly borne out by the evidence. Penal policy can make a more moral and constitutional contributes to a broad social strategy to reduce harm to individuals and communications caused by the wide range of problems associated with drug misuse. The main point to note is that the crime is associated with the drug use, but drugs usually doesn't cause crime. Most experts agree that even if we could achieve in eliminating drug abuse, there would be only a small reduction in the case of robberies, burglaries, and similar other serious crimes. The justice system should be less to process and punish problematics drug uses and more to improves their capacities to leads to productions lives. Effective treatment programs should be made universally available both within the community and within prison. This paper focus mainly on the relation between drugs and the crimes associated with it and analyze various review of literature in a critical manner.