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Global Habit - The Drug Problem in a Borderless World (Paperback, New edition)
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The market for illicit drugs is expanding inexorably around the
world. More kinds of drugs are becoming more available in more
places than ever before. But the drug trade is not only growing, it
is changing in character. It has ceased to be a marginal area of
criminal activity and has now become a major global enterprise
controlled by formidable interests that threaten much more than the
health of drug users. Global retail sales of illicit drugs are
estimated at between $180 billion and more than $300 billion
annually, thus ranking as one of the world's biggest commercial
activities. Moreover, the immense wealth that has been amassed from
selling drugs has given the principal trafficking organizations
enormous power to corrupt and intimidate public officials and
government institutions. In this major book, Paul Stares presents a
compelling portrait of the global drug market and the consequences
of this international plague. He explains that there are good
reasons to fear that the global market for drugs will continue to
expand in the coming years: profits to the traffickers are huge;
the revolutionary advances in communications, transportation, and
information technology facilitate smuggling, as do the lowering of
border controls and trade tariffs and the trends toward
privatization and deregulation. Meanwhile, the expanded volume of
global trade, travel, and financial transactions makes it harder
for customs and police authorities to detect and stop illicit
activities. Added to the growing incentives and opportunities to
supply illicit drugs, the level of demand is increasing in many new
areas of the world, particularly in formerly communist countries
and many areas of the developingworld. What can done about this
growing problem? One option is legalization, but Stares contends
that its implementation would be problematic while its benefits
remain unclear. Yet, continuing on the present course will not work
either. Stares argues that reducing both the supply and demand for
illicit drugs requires a fundamental shift away from the current
overwhelming emphasis on negative sanctions to deter and deny their
production, trafficking, and consumption. Instead, he calls for
more positive control measures that primarily rely on persuasion
and cooperation. He advocates the creation of a global drug
monitoring and evaluation network, a global drug use prevention
program, a global drug treatment training program, and an
international drug crisis response program. According to Stares,
the effectiveness of reorienting drug control policy to curb the
global habit will ultimately depend on the international
community's willingness to address much larger concerns to which
the drug problem is inextricably linked-- including overpopulation,
environmental degradation, poverty, illiteracy, ethnic strife, and
disease. Only by recognizing the fundamental relationship between
these larger issues and the global drug problem can meaningful
progress be made. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book for
1996
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