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Confronting drug policy : illicit drugs in a free society / edited by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer.

Title: Confronting drug policy : illicit drugs in a free society / edited by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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vii, 369 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Introduction : the great drug policy debate : what means this thing called decriminalization? / Ronald Bayer -- The social demography of drug use / Denise B. Kandel -- Drug policy : striking the right balance / Avram Goldstein and Harold Kalant -- Drug legalization and the minority poor / William Kornblum -- Social behavior, public policy, and nonharmful drug use / Charles Winick -- From prohibition to regulation : lessons from alcohol policy for drug policy / Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman -- To build a bridge : the use of foreign models by domestic critics of U.S. drug policy / Gerald M. Oppenheimer -- Drugs, the criminal law, and the administration of justice / Mark H. Moore -- Compulsory treatment for drug-dependent persons : justifications for a public health approach to drug dependency / Lawrence O. Gostin -- Helping women helping children : drug policy and future generations / Patricia A. King.
Medicalization of psychoactive substance use and the doctor-patient relationship / Robert J. Levine -- Legalizing drugs : lessons from (and about) economics / Kenneth E. Warner.

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