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The dilemma of drug policy in the United States / Elaine B. Sharp.

Title
The dilemma of drug policy in the United States / Elaine B. Sharp.
Author
Sharp, Elaine B.
Publication
New York : HarperCollins College Publishers, c1994.

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Description
xii, 186 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Some Sharp observations ...
  • Emphasizing interrelated themes of policy failure and policy change, this book is a theoretical and conceptual examination of drug policy in the United States. It is in part a policy history, using case studies to link specific drug policies to a general theoretical framework. These cases focus primarily on three important and interesting episodes of drug policy development during the Nixon-Carter, and Reagan-Bush administrations, and the author interprets the historical significance of each period.
  • The Dilemma of Drug Policy in the United States examines a wide array of ideas concerning incrementalism, interest groups, and symbolic politics to determine why there has been so much continuity in drug policy despite policy failure. Finally, a chapter on policy alternatives deals with the legalization debate, and critiques it from the perspective of a political scientist.
Series Statement
HarperCollins public policy series
Uniform Title
HarperCollins public policy series.
Subject
  • Substance-Related Disorders > rehabilitation
  • Illicit Drugs > supply & distribution
  • Public Policy
  • Crime
  • Drug and Narcotic Control
  • Drug abuse > Government policy > United States
  • Drug abuse and crime > United States
  • Drug abuse > United States > Prevention
  • Drug abuse > Treatment > United States
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Peter Eisinger -- 1. Policy, Politics, and Learning: The Case of Illicit Drugs -- 2. The History of U.S. Drug Policy: The Early Years and Nixon's War on Drugs -- 3. Drug Policy in the Carter Administration -- 4. The Contemporary War on Drugs -- 5. Drug Treatment: Programs and Results -- 6. Drug Abuse Prevention -- 7. Domestic Drug-Law Enforcement -- 8. Limits of Policy Change -- 9. Possibilities for Drug Policy.
ISBN
0065009738
LCCN
^^^93044564^
OCLC
  • 29469324
  • SCSB-10320085
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library