Drug Control Policy: Essays in Historical and Comparative PerspectivePenn State Press, 2004年5月1日 - 188 頁 A detailed look at drug control policy as it has been shaped historically in the United States and other countries, most notably in China and East Asia. Drug policy has emphasized suppressing drugs at their source by curtailing their distribution, but few policy makers have considered legalization as a remedy. On the other hand, much of drug policy has been a record of bureaucratic infighting and aggrandizement. At the same time, it has reflected nativistic and racial biases. These essays suggest, however, that alternative strategies would not necessarily be any more successful. David Courtwright argues that legalization of drugs would create its own problems. Given the nature of federal policy, institutional structures, and social mores, the authors question whether drug policy could have been otherwise constructed. William O. Walker has brought together leading scholars writing in the field to contribute essays that offer broad perspectives on the history of drug policy. They provide a comparative and historical lens through which to view the current debate over drug policy in the United States. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 74 筆
... problems persist , little remedied by policy . To draw only these conclusions from this collection of essays would be misleading . These essays show a continuity in drug policy as it has emerged in the twentieth century . Drug policy ...
... problems , and not to historians — those physicians of the buried . Historians of policy history , however , can provide careful dissections of past policies . In this regard , this volume presents a useful pathology to drug policy in ...
... problems that afflicted the United States over the last decade were scarcely unique . Historically as well as at present , the vexing prob- lems attendant to drugs are manifestly international in scope . Moreover , the various ways in ...
... problems worsened . The second article , by David T. Courtwright , examines through a comparative and historical lens the case currently being made for con- trolled legalization of drugs . Courtwright reaches the conclusion that a ...
... problems are largely foreign in origin or are exacer- bated domestically by ethnic minorities have become controlling ones for policymakers . It is therefore not surprising , he concludes , that drug- control officials have long ...
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The Politics and Policies of Americas Drug War | 5 |
Drug Legalization the Drug War and Drug Treatment in Historical Perspective | 42 |
A Speculative Essay | 64 |
Opium Tungsten and the Search for National Security 194052 | 89 |
Nativism and Narcotics Control in the United States | 117 |
Conflicts of Interest in the International Drug Control System | 143 |
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Contributors | 175 |