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For some people, the idea of alcohol or drug addiction rehabilitation is too overwhelming, mostly because these individuals are usually the victims of; unemployment, homelessness , and living below the subsistence level of poverty. The cost of addiction is not merely physical but also emotional and financial. For these people, addiction treatment is not an option, they don’t have the means to fund such programs, despite the benefits because other expenses take priority. Many people cannot sustain rehabilitation treatment as an option altogether and continue with their self-destructive tendencies uncontrollably. Addiction is considered as an illness and this consuming aliment becomes detrimental. Stress and support for addicts with extra emphasis on rehabilitation will improve the lives of many, and prevent the deaths of many. Every human should have the chance to better their lives and alter their lifestyles and there must be regulations passed to ensure that this can happen. It is the delegates of UNODC’s job to form conclusive resolutions that tackle the issue at hand and create resources that are accessible to any human that requires them, especially the underprivileged that live in LEDCs.

The Mexican drug war is an ongoing low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug-trafficking syndicates. Although Mexican drug trafficking organizations have existed for several decades, their influence increased after the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market and in 2007 controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. Mexico is a major drug transit and producing country. It is the main foreign supplier of cannabis and an important entry point for South American cocaine and Asian methamphetamines to the United States. It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis.Cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. The U.S. State Department estimates that 90 percent of cocaine entering the United States is produced in Colombia (followed by Bolivia and Peru) and that the main transit route is through Mexico. Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics flow into the United States. Although Mexico accounts for only a small share of worldwide heroin production, it supplies a large share of the heroin distributed in the United States. There are a multitude of issues stemming from this one topic and they include: violence, government corruption, impact on human rights and even controversies like money laundering. The delegates of UNODC must create cautious resolutions that are effective and combat all of these prevalent issues stemming from this topic.