"An important and timely book. The authors capture the dynamics of drug debate with uncanny accuracy. Too often, treatment and prevention get the short end of the stick in Congress, and this book explains why. "Drug War Politics" makes a compelling case for bringing public health principles to bear on the drug epidemic, and is essential reading for serious students of the drug issue."--Senator Edward M. Kennedy "A thoughtful analysis of the most fundamental and troublesome social problem in America. It reaches behind ...
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"An important and timely book. The authors capture the dynamics of drug debate with uncanny accuracy. Too often, treatment and prevention get the short end of the stick in Congress, and this book explains why. "Drug War Politics" makes a compelling case for bringing public health principles to bear on the drug epidemic, and is essential reading for serious students of the drug issue."--Senator Edward M. Kennedy "A thoughtful analysis of the most fundamental and troublesome social problem in America. It reaches behind rhetoric and starts making sense about how we can go about saving ourselves from two addictions: the terrible affliction of drugs and the easy talk that makes the rest of us feel good but does not deal with the problem."--Kurt Schmoke, Mayor, City of Baltimore "This well-informed book shows how political expediency and a punitive conventional wisdom have combined over the past decades to support a national drug policy that fills our prisons, depletes our budget, and destroys our poor. This is a wonderfully sane analysis of what has become a major form of national insanity."--Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York "We've needed a new way of thinking about the drug problem for a long time. Now we have it. "Drug War Politics" is one of the best efforts to reconceptualize a major aspect of crime, especially victimless crime, that I have seen since Morris and Hawkins' The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control of nearly 30 years ago."--Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University "A compelling analysis of our failure. The provocative public health solutions it proposes to the drug-related crime, violence, and despair that ravage many of our inner cities show that we can give people a chance--a chance to fight addiction and build better lives."--Congressman John Lewis "We will never be able to arrest, prosecute, or jail our way out of the drug problem. To understand why, read this book. The evidence is overwhelming: we need a radical change in the mission and mandate of drug control."--Nicholas Pastore, Chief of Police, New Haven "This is the smart citizens' guide to the drug policy debate--to why we spend so much time and money on things that don't work, and to where we can look for guidance for things that do."--Barbara Geller, Director, Fighting Back, New Haven
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 347 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 95019168 Type of material Book Main title Drug war politics: the price of denial / Eva Bertram...[et al.]. Published/Created Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996. Description xiv, 347 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0520203097 (alk. paper) 0520205987 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HV5825. D7778 1996 Related names Bertram, Eva. LC Subjects Drug control--United States. Drug abuse--Government policy--United States. Public health--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-336) and index. Dewey class no. 363.4/5/0973 Geographic area code n-us---
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