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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know

Product Description: While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism...read more

By Angela Hawken

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9780199764518 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 13, 2011, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon.

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9780199764501 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 13, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon.

World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and Its Control

By Martin Bouchard (editor)

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9781409417804 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 11, 2011, cover price $104.95

Children of the Drug War: Perspectives on the Impact of Drug Policies on Young People

Product Description: A unique collection of original essays that investigate the impacts of the war on drugs on children and young people.

By Damon Barrett (editor)

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9781617700187 | Intl Debate Education Assn, April 1, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A unique collection of original essays that investigate the impacts of the war on drugs on children and young people.

Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the World

By Executive Intelligence Review (editor)

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9781615772841 | 4 upd rev edition (Progressive Pr, October 25, 2010), cover price $19.95

Drug Enforcement Administration

By Michael Newton

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9781604136418 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2011, cover price $35.00

Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment

Product Description: Ever since the Shanghai convention in 1909, the threat posed to human well-being by drug abuse has led countries around the world to take action to deal with their drug problems. There are wide variations in the policies pursued, but most countries try to reduce both the supply of and the demand for drugs...read more

By Mangai Natarajan (editor)

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9780754627753 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 16, 2010, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: Ever since the Shanghai convention in 1909, the threat posed to human well-being by drug abuse has led countries around the world to take action to deal with their drug problems.

Drug Policy and the Public Good

Product Description: Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop evidence-based drug policy. It is therefore crucial to strengthen the links between addiction science and drug policy...read more

By Benedikt Fisher

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9780199557127 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 22, 2010, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop evidence-based drug policy.

The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel

Product Description: Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe...read more

By Robert Mazur

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9780316077538 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, July 27, 2009), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe.

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9780316080378 | Little Brown & Co, July 27, 2009, cover price $12.99

The Infiltrator: How I Brought Down the Dirty Bankers Who Financed the Medellin Cartel

By Robert Mazur

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9781559709033 | Arcade Pub, July 1, 2009, cover price $25.95

Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication c. 1500-c. 1930

Product Description: Drugs and Empires introduces new research from a range of historians that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa...read more

By Patricia Barton (editor) and James H. Mills (editor)

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9780230516519 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Drugs and Empires introduces new research from a range of historians that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world.

The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs

Product Description: Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee in the West. It is hugely popular in some African and Arab populations. But critics contend that it is a seriously addictive stimulant that damages the cardiovascular system...read more

By David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein

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9781845202507 | Berg Pub Ltd, August 21, 2007, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee in the West.

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9781845202514 | Berg Pub Ltd, August 21, 2007, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee in the West.

Drug Wars And Coffee Houses: The Political Economy of the International Drug Trade

Product Description: An international policy issue awash in myths, moral inconsistencies, social prejudices, and political rhetoric, it's no wonder students find the international drug trade an alluring topic to study and discuss. With his brief and engaging new book, David Mares explores the reasons why there is so much disagreement among nations about which policies are most appropriate to address drug production, distribution, and trade...read more

By David R. Mares

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9781568028620 | Cq Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: An international policy issue awash in myths, moral inconsistencies, social prejudices, and political rhetoric, it's no wonder students find the international drug trade an alluring topic to study and discuss.

The International Drugs Trade

Product Description: Drugs have been used in many ways since antiquity - for relaxation, as aphrodisiacs, for medical purposes, as stimulants and for pain relief. In this book the author examines the abuse of drugs in the West and the social problems that arise from their use; the value of the illegal drugs business which is now one of the four largest money-earners in the world; the involvement of governments (openly or covertly) in this lucrative trade; and the failure of drug enforcement programmes either to curtail the supply of drugs or to persuade users to abandon their habit...read more

By Guy Arnold

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9781579583965 | Routledge, May 31, 2005, cover price $151.00 | About this edition: Drugs have been used in many ways since antiquity - for relaxation, as aphrodisiacs, for medical purposes, as stimulants and for pain relief.

Drug And Alcohol Consumption As Functions Of Social Structures: A Cross-cultural Sociology

By James E. Hawdon

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9780773461871 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $129.95

Drug Abuse: Opposing Viewpoints

Provides a collection of articles that offer varying viewpoints on the subject of drug abuse.

By Helen Cothran (editor) and Tamara L. Roleff (editor)

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9780737722277 | Greenhaven Pr, October 8, 2004, cover price $28.90 | About this edition: Provides a collection of articles that offer varying viewpoints on the subject of drug abuse.

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9780737722260 | Greenhaven Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $41.70 | About this edition: Provides a collection of articles that offer varying viewpoints on the subject of drug abuse.

Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

Product Description: A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeffrey A. Miron

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9780945999904 | Independent Inst, July 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book.

Global Drug Enforcement: Practical Investigative Techniques

Product Description: It's a national epidemic and an international conspiracy. Drugs have infested our society with a vengeance, making the drug enforcement agent a central figure in the war on drugs. International training teams of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have traditionally taught the special skills required by all drug agents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gregory D. Lee

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9780849316296 | CRC Pr I Llc, October 1, 2003, cover price $107.95 | About this edition: It's a national epidemic and an international conspiracy.

Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes

Product Description: Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who grow them are faced with a life of extreme poverty or are lured by the prospect of a very lucrative cash crop with a steady market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Joseph J. Hobbs (editor), Kent Mathewson (editor) and Michael K. Steinberg (editor)

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9780195143195 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals.

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9780195143201 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development.

The Politics of Drugs: From Production to Consumption

By Peadar King

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9781904148197 | Liffey Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

The Narc's Game: Organizational and Informational Limits on Drug Law Enforcement

Product Description: The constraints on case making and case working, the sources of facts, the role of uncertainty, and the importance of perspective and enactment are among the central topics discussed in this masterful study of work, behavior, professionalization, and bureaucracy in the world of drug law enforcement...read more

By Peter K. Manning

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9780262131544 | Mit Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Narcs' Game draws on Peter K.

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9781577662402 | 2 edition (Waveland Pr Inc, July 1, 2003), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The constraints on case making and case working, the sources of facts, the role of uncertainty, and the importance of perspective and enactment are among the central topics discussed in this masterful study of work, behavior, professionalization, and bureaucracy in the world of drug law enforcement.

The Drug Dilemma: Responding to a Growing Crisis

By Andrea Stone (editor) and Jason Stone (editor)

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9780972054126 | Reprint edition (Intl Debate Education Assn, July 1, 2003), cover price $24.95

The War Against Drugs

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By Michael Kerrigan

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9781590843680 | Mason Crest, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95

Drug Enforcement Administration

By Clive Somerville

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9781590844137 | Mason Crest, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95

Narco-Terrorism: A Unified Strategy to Fight a Growing Terrorist Menace

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By Douglas J. Davids

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9781571052490 | Transnational Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $37.00

World Drug Report 2000: United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention

Product Description: The illicit drug trade touches millions of lives in both developed and developing countries, with its most negative impact concentrated among the more vulnerable and marginalized of our societies. Indeed, the United Nations estimates that 180 million people worldwide were consuming drugs in the late 1990s...read more

By United Nations Drug Control Programme (editor)

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9780198296492 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: The illicit drug trade touches millions of lives in both developed and developing countries, with its most negative impact concentrated among the more vulnerable and marginalized of our societies.

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