Drugs and justice
Subtitle: seeking a consistent, coherent, comprehensive view
By: Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Battin, M. Pabst
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195321005; 9780195321012
Subjects: Drug control -- United States; Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States; Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Drugs "across the board" : toward a consistent, coherent, comprehensive view in drug theory, policy, and practice; title: How did it come to be this way? : the historical development of drug regulation; title: Drug regulatory agencies and the underlying rationales for drug policy; title: Core conceptual problems : addiction; title: Core conceptual problems : harm (and benefit); title: Dilemmas of drug management and control : case puzzles and studies in conflict; title: Toward justice in drug theory, policy, and practice.