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alcohol and drug use  

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  • Drugs and alcohol are fundamental elements of street crime in multiple respects. A generally recognized drugs-crime nexus has generated multiple theoretical explanations accounting for the central role that drugs and alcohol assume in the occurrence of street crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Alcohol and Drug Use]

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