{"id":3546,"date":"2017-02-20T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:05:13","slug":"global-spotlight-the-global-drug-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/2017\/02\/20\/global-spotlight-the-global-drug-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Spotlight: The Global Drug Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-hosted with the Department of Political Science \/ Public Affairs and the International Studies Program.<br \/>\nThe international trafficking of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs, with the U.S. being a major distribution destination, is a highly lucrative criminal activity and focus of intense law enforcement intervention. The Drug Enforcement Administration cites recent investigations conducted with local, state, federal and international partners that have led to arrests of major international criminals, while the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports increasing health-related problems, including addiction, drugged driving, and infectious disease. The forum will grapple with these issues and provide viewpoints on possible solutions.<br \/>\nPresentations by:<br \/>\nAngela Dills, Gimelstob-Landry Distinguished Professor of Regional Economic Development, on \u201cThe Economics of Drug Prohibition.\u201d<br \/>\nKimberlee Hall, assistant professor in the Environmental Health Program, on \u201cDrug Abuse and the Public Health Response.\u201d<br \/>\nAl Kopak, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, on \u201cThe Limitations of Law Enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-hosted with the Department of Political Science \/ Public Affairs and the International Studies Program. The international trafficking of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs, with the U.S. being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}