Abstract
In modern societies it is easy to recognize that consuming drugs is an every day reality. It is not only taking heroin or marijuana, but also smoking, taking painkillers, having a coffee, a tea or excessive intake of alcohol on Saturday as a required "Saturday night" obligation. The illegal drug market remains a major income of the international and also national organized crime. Obviously, the same could be said about the market of the so-called legal drugs which involve the main pharmaceutical firms, or the powerful manufacturers of tobacco, alcohol. My study focuses mainly on the impact of the usage of illegal drugs. Transporting, producing, dealing, consuming any kind of illegal substances is only a part of the offenses drugs can induce. Entering the web of drug abuse can lead to different sorts of violent, sometimes desperate behaviors like assault or prostitution to fund the demanding habit. Throughout the twentieth century, the states have progressively become concerned with the frightening spread of the illegal drug addiction and its damaging effect. Thus a whole range of different tools have been implemented throughout the world to fight it.
