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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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