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Drugs and Drug Policy - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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Drugs and Drug Policy - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
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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 enterprises dealing in
forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of
drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a
drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer,
leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What
are we going to do about drugs?
In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the
subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed
series, What Everyone Needs to Know(r). They begin, by defining
"drugs," examining how they work in the brain, discussing the
nature of addiction, and exploring the damage they do to users. The
book moves on to policy, answering questions about legalization,
the role of criminal prohibitions, and the relative legal tolerance
for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dissect the illicit
trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effect of
catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationship
between drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its
effectiveness and the role of public policy, and discuss the
beneficial effects of some abusable substances. Finally they move
outward to look at the role of drugs in our foreign policy, their
relationship to terrorism, and the ugly politics that surround the
issue.
Crisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is a handy and up-to-date
overview of one of the most pressing topics in today's world.
What Everyone Needs to Know(r) is a registered trademark of Oxford
University Press
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