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Author Duke, Steven B.

Title America's longest war : rethinking our tragic crusade against drugs / Steven B. Duke and Albert C. Gross ; foreword by Kurt L. Schmoke.

Imprint New York : Putnam's Sons, 1994, c1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.45 D885a 1994    ---  Available
Description xix, 348 p. ; 23 cm.
Note "A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book".
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-336) and indexes.
Contents An overview : the greater evil -- Identifying the enemy : "drugs," "drug abuse" and other concepts -- Our most harmful legal drugs -- Our most popular illegal drugs -- Lessons from the past -- The crime caused by Prohibition -- Freedom costs -- Autonomy costs -- Social costs -- Health and safety costs -- The drug war cannot succeed -- The legalization option -- Forms of legalization -- A harm minimization approach.
Subject Drug control.
Drug abuse.
Drug legalization.
Added Author Gross, Albert C.
ISBN 0874777887

 
    
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