Drug war politics : the price of denial /

Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bertram, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Drug control > United States.
Drug traffic > Government policy > United States.
Drug abuse > Government policy > United States.
Public health > United States.
Public health.
Drug addiction.
Drug abuse.
Drug and Narcotic Control
Public Health
Substance-Related Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders > prevention & control
Drogue, Lutte contre la > États-Unis.
Drogues > Trafic > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Toxicomanie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Services de santé > États-Unis.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Santé publique > États-Unis.
Santé publique.
Toxicomanie.
public health.
drug abuse.
drug addiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Drug abuse > Government policy.
Drug control.
Strafverfolgung
Drogenhandel
Drogenpolitik
Drugsverslaving.
Drugshandel.
Strafrecht.
Gezondheidszorg.
United States.
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One : The drug war syndrome
  • Three fatal flaws in the war on drugs
  • The collateral damage of the war on drugs
  • Part Two : Paradigms, power and the politics of denial
  • The punitive paradigm : The early struggles, 1900-1930
  • The punitive paradigm : Entrenchment and challenge, 1930-1980
  • Presidential drug wars and the carco-enforcement complex
  • Congress, the electorate and the logic of excalation
  • The punitive paradigm revisited
  • Part Three : Public health and the struggle for reform
  • Paradigm shifts
  • Envisioning a public-health paradigm
  • The politics of drug reform
  • Afterword : Trends in drug-control spending
  • Trends in drug prices
  • Trends in drug use and its consequences.

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