Drugs and drug policy : what everyone needs to know /

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enter...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kleiman, Mark (Autor), Caulkins, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul), 1965- (Autor), Hawken, Angela, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Colección:What everyone needs to know.
Temas:
Drug abuse.
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
Substance-Related Disorders
Drug and Narcotic Control
Toxicomanie.
Lutte antidrogue.
Drogues > Trafic.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Why Is "Drug" the Name of a Problem?; 2 Why Have Drug Laws?; 3 How Does Drug-Law Enforcement Work?; 4 What Prevents Drug Abuse?; 5 What Treats Drug Abuse?; 6 How Much Crime Is Drug-Related?; 7 What Are the Benefits of Drug Use?; 8 Can Drug Problems Be Dealt With at the Source?; 9 Does International Drug Dealing Support Terrorism?; 10 When It Comes To Drugs, Why Can't We Think Calmly and Play Nice?; Conclusion: What Is To Be Done?; Appendix: How Do Drugs Work in the Brain?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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