Reduction of Demand for Drugs by Incorporation of Elasticity

Prohibited do dosess have been one of the study concerns of the federal official government for the past decades. Various negative effects of disallow medicates not notwithstanding on the user itself but also on the immediate community of the latter have been place. Due to this, various programs has been launched by the federal government just to regulate and pr take downt citizens from dose addiction. iodin of the said government projects to minimize dose addiction would be the intensification of drug treatments aside from the call patrolling etc. The question now would be which of the identified two governments program leave alone be more than impressive?Since prohibited drugs be addictive, users pass on continue to buy the said good even if there is a high risk involving its usage, not to mention that it is dear(predicate) (Kuehlwein, 2007). In other words, drug users will continue to buy as long as their will be someone who will submit them with those prohibited drugs regardless how much will it cost. Therefore, the intensification of drug treatment programs would be more effective as compared to the border patrolling since the former will repress the addiction of the drug users which will eventually removes its pray bouncyity towards elastic demand.On the other hand, border patrolling will only lower down the add up of prohibited drugs in the market which only further increases its price level due to possible shortage as authorities on borders isolate more prohibited drugs. At the end of the day, the root of the problem will not be solved by only patrolling on borders since drug users will always find ways on how to get ganja or cocaine on the streets.This makes the intensification of drug treatment programs more effective since this attacks the root of the problem by minimizing the drug dependency of users which eventually leads to de-escalateting drug usage. At this point, it is already clear that through reducing the demand of drug users to prohibited drugs will solve the said problem of the government more effectively than with the border patrolling. It would be better on the part of the federal government to concentrate more on the drug treatment programs than with border patrolling. AppendixWith the drug treatment program, the elasticity of demand of drug users will shift from being inelastic to being elastic. The good thing with this will be, infra the elastic demand by the time drug users will quit using prohibited drugs, there is a big possibility that they will no longer go back into being drug addicts since they are no longer drug dependent. Whereas, border patrolling will do only no harm on the demand of the drug users and at the identical time will only boost the prices of prohibited drugs on the streets as shown by demand curve1.Demand curve 1 is inelastic while demand curve 2 is elastic and the latter is the end effect of the intensification of drug treatment programs. Reference Kuehlwein, M . (2007). Cocaine and the Elasticity of Demand. Retrieved February 21, 2008, from http//images. google. com. ph/imgres? imgurl=http//www. unc. edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/GreatIdeas/ART/GI05-12. gif&imgrefurl=http//www. unc. edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/GreatIdeas/02-CoreMicro/GI-05. htm&h=411&w=909&sz=10&hl=tl&start=13&um=1&tbnid=wBaZSi2QPBBJ3M&tbnh=66&tbnw=147&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dinelastic%2Bdemand%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dtl%26sa%3DN