Drugs /

Drugs / Maria Tenaglia-Webster, editor.

Examines the issue of drugs from a variety of international perspectives.

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Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Other Authors: Tenaglia-Webster, Maria (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, [2009]
Series:Global viewpoints.
Subjects:
Drugs > Social aspects.
Drug abuse.
Table of Contents:
  • The failure of the war on drugs : an overview / Ethan Nadelmann
  • The Afghan poppy war is fueling an insurgency / Simon Jenkins
  • Mexico's plight worsens despite military intervention in the war on drugs / The Drug Reform Coordination Network
  • The Colombian paramilitary presence is still a threat despite drug war efforts / Vanda Felbab-Brown
  • A long history of failure with prohibition : an overview / Alfred W. McCoy
  • The Afghan drug war cannot be won through eradication and prohibition / Transnational Institute
  • Colombia's eradication policies are in need of change / Chris Kraul
  • The United Kingdom's failed policy of prohibition yields a criminal justice crisis / Transform Drug Policy Foundation
  • The United States' meth crackdown is counterproductive and displaces production to Mexico / Kari Huus
  • The production of drugs is causing global environmental damage / United States Drug Enforcement Administration
  • American meth labs pose a hazardous threat to the environment / Ben Arnoldy
  • Yemen's addiction to qat is exhausting its water supply / Jonathon Walz
  • Colombia's legal crops and forests are wrongly destroyed by eradication / Bill Weinberg
  • Ecuadorians are suffering DNA damage from aerial spray eradication / Stephen Leahy
  • Colombia and Afghanistan are potential targets for a dangerous biologically engineered fungus / John Otis
  • Legalization is the only viable option to drug prohibition / Jeffrey A. Miron
  • The United Kingdom should decriminalize drugs / Kailash Chand
  • The United Kingdom should not decriminalize drugs / Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
  • The Netherlands demonstrates temperance through decriminalization / Andrew Stuttaford
  • Canadians are unnecessarily challenged in obtaining medical marijuana / Connie Howard
  • Bolivia's criminalization of coca should be overturned / Danna Harman
  • Harm reduction reduces drug use and restores human dignity / Drug Policy Alliance
  • Harm reduction encourages drug use and is dehumanizing / Theodore Dalrymple
  • Canada's safe-injection program is curtailing abuse and saving lives / Mark Follman
  • The United States' ban on needle exchange programs is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS / James E. Loyce, Jr., Adrian Tyler, and Malik Russell
  • Australia will not benefit from harm reduction / Don Weatherburn
  • The United Kingdom's obsession with criminalization maximizes harm / Danny Kushlick.

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