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Title Drugs and society : U.S. public policy / edited by Jefferson M. Fish
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
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Description xi, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Gary E. Johnson -- 1. Rethinking U.S. drug policy / Jefferson M. Fish -- App. 1A. The United States and the Netherlands / Douglas A. McVay -- 2. Protestant missionaries : creators of the international war on drugs / Jerry Mandel -- 3. Alcohol prohibition and drug prohibition : lessons from alcohol policy for drug policy / Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman -- 4. Five drug policy fallacies / Jefferson M. Fish -- 5. Competing rationales for drug policy reform / Douglas Husak -- 6. Legalization : an introduction / Richard M. Evans and Stanley Neustadter -- 7. Acute toxicity of drugs versus regulatory status / Robert S. Gable -- 8. Proposals for de-escalating the war on drugs / Jefferson M. Fish -- 9. Economics of illegal drug markets : what happens if we downsize the drug war? / Mary M. Cleveland -- App. 9A. Use, "abuse," adverse health effects, and addiction / Mary M. Cleveland -- 10. Issues in legalization / Steven B. Duke and Albert C. Gross
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States.
Drug control -- United States.
Drug abuse and crime -- United States.
Substance abuse -- Prevention -- United States
Drug legalization -- United States.
Author Fish, Jefferson M.
LC no. 2005005099
ISBN 0742542440 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742542459 (paperback: alk. paper)