Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it
Subtitle: a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs
By: James P. Gray.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia, [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781566398596; 9781566398602
Subjects: Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States; Drug control -- United States
Other titles: AS Drug Information Center Collection.; Associated Students Collections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Property of Associated Students. This item may be checked out from the AS Drug Information Center, VU 517.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Introduction -- -- pt. 2.; title: Our drug laws have failed -- -- 1.; title: Past and present --; title: An historical perspective --; title: Emergence of the prison-industrial complex -- -- 2.; title: Increased harm to communities --; title: Communities awash in illicit drugs --; title: Violence and corruption --; title: Domestic --; title: Foreign - -- 3.; title: Erosion of protections of the Bill of Rights -- -- 4.; title: Increased harm to drug users --; title: Demonization --; title: Deterioration of health -- -- 5.; title: Increased harm for the future --; title: Conspiracy theories --; title: Government policy : don't discuss it -- -- pt. 3.; title: Options -- -- 6.; title: Increased zero tolerance -- -- 7.; title: Education -- -- 8.; title: Drug treatment --; title: Rehabilitation--; title: Medicalization--; title: Needle exchange programs --; title: Drug substitution programs --; title: Drug maintenance programs -- -- 9.; title: De-profitization of drugs -; title: Legalization --; title: Decriminalization --; title: Regulated distribution -- -- 10.; title: Federalism, not federalization -- -- pt. 4.; title: What we can do about it.