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Lies, damned lies, and drug war statistics : a critical analysis of claims made by the office of National Drug Control Policy
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Lies, damned lies, and drug war statistics : a critical analysis of claims made by the office of National Drug Control Policy

Author: Matthew B Robinson; Renee G Scherlen
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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Genre/Form: Statistics
Statistiques
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Matthew B Robinson; Renee G Scherlen
ISBN: 0791469751 9780791469750 079146976X 9780791469767
OCLC Number: 64486801
Description: xviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
Ideology --
Claims-making and moral panics --
Policy analysis --
2. About America's drug war --
Key historical events in the drug war --
Goals of the drug war --
Agencies that fight the drug war --
Drug war budgets --
3. Methodology --
What we did --
How we did it --
Data sources --
Limitations of drug data --
4. Claims of success in reducing drug use --
General drug use trends for adults and youth --
Marijuana --
Cocaine --
Heroin --
Ecstasy --
Other drugs --
ONDCP emphasizes prevention (but does not fund it) --
5. Claims of success in healing America's drug users and disrupting drug markets --
Claims of success in healing America's drug users --
Claims of success in disrupting drug markets --
6. Costs of the drug war --
Economic costs --
Nonpunitive drug war? --
Blurring costs of drugs and costs of the drug war --
Deaths --
Emergency room mentions --
Drugs and crime --
7. A fair assessment of America's drug war --
Reducing drug use --
Healing drug users --
Disrupting illicit drug markets --
Reducing drug-related crime and violence --
Reducing health and social costs to the public --
Costs of the drug war --
Benefits of the drug war --
8. Conclusions and policy recommendations --
Lessons from history --
Findings --
A fair assessment of America's drug war --
A rational response to ONDCP failure --
Policy implications : evaluating the drug war and using statistics --
Policy implications : drug war.
Responsibility: Matthew B. Robinson, Renee G. Scherlen.
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