Drug War Politics
Subtitle: The Price of Denial
Publisher: University of California Press; Brand: University of California Press
Published: July 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780520203099
Subjects: Alcoholism; Central government policies; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Ethical issues & debates; Sociology; General; Social Policy; Politics / Current Events; USA; Government policy; Political Science / General; Drug abuse; Drug traffic; Narcotics, Control of; United States; Current Affairs; Politics - Current Events; Drug control
First sentence: Despite convincing, publicly available evidence that the war on drugs has not addressed the nation's problems of drug abuse and addiction, the U.S. government has consistently refused to engage in a serious reevaluation of the strategy or a search for a different approach.