"The editors and authors have produced an important work in the
ongoing debate about the effect and efficacy of U.S. drug policy.
Authoritative in its analysis and comprehensive in its embrace,
this work will contribute importantly to the policy debate. A
must-read for anybody concerned about developing a strategy to
improve the health and well-being of our communities."--Ronald
Dellums, Member of Congress
""Crack in America is a devastating, sad, angry, though always
scholarly book about the many failures of our national drug policy.
The contributors make a convincing case that America is unable to
solve the problems associated with crack because it is unwilling to
deal with extreme economic and racial inequality except by
stigmatizing and punishing the unequal. The book is of urgent
importance--a powerfully persuasive and illuminating inquiry about
America. I wish it could be required reading for the White House
and all the agencies responsible for the country's drug
problems."--Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University
"Indispensable for understanding the real roots of hard drug
abuse in America's inner cities. It shows brilliantly how our drug
policies have made our drug problem worse and points the way out of
the drug war morass. A passionate and ultimately hopeful
book."--Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore
""Crack in America accurately and forcefully examines in detail
the myth and the reality of crack. It is a must-read for any
American concerned about drugs in our society and for any reader
valuing honesty and scholarship compellingly presented."--Robert W.
Sweet, U.S. District Judge
"A penetrating analysis by a variety of scholars which explodes
many of the governmentpropagated myths regarding crack
cocaine."--Joseph D. McNamara, Stanford University
"Reinarman, Levine and their colleagues bring a keen
sociological sensibility to their analysis of our contemporary
moral panic. These essays make clear that crack policy is more the
problem than the so-called crack epidemic. And they go on to
disentangle the intricate ways in which American culture and
economy, and particularly our racism, classicism and sexism, are
implicated both in the use of crack and its repression."--Frances
Fox Piven, Dept. of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
"Scholarly, lucid, and readable. . .the most original and
thoughtful analysis of the American crack panic. The contributors
demonstrate compellingly the relationship between social justice
and public health."--Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Medical
School
"An immensely rich book and an extraordinary source of
information. . . . Since crack is not only America's but the
world's latest demon drug, and since rational alternatives to
repression are at the order of the day the world over, the book is
indispensable reading for concerned students, scholars,
politicians, and citizens everywhere."--Henner Hess,
Goethe-Universitat (Frankfurt, Germany)
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