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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

Kleiman, Mark A. R.
Caulkins, Jonathan P.
Hawken, Angela

Paperback

Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

Medical ReferenceAddiction & RecoveryGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0199764506
ISBN13: 9780199764501
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 13 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.63 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs?

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