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Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it : a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs / James P. Gray.
- Title
- Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it : a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs / James P. Gray.
- Author
- Gray, James P., 1945-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, [Pa.] : Temple University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- x, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Our drug laws have failed -- 1. Past and present -- An historical perspective -- Emergence of the prison-industrial complex -- 2. Increased harm to communities -- Communities awash in illicit drugs -- Violence and corruption -- Domestic -- Foreign -- 3. Erosion of protections of the Bill of Rights -- 4. Increased harm to drug users -- Demonization -- Deterioration of health -- 5. Increased harm for the future -- Conspiracy theories -- Government policy : don't discuss it -- pt. 3. Options -- 6. Increased zero tolerance -- 7. Education -- 8. Drug treatment -- Rehabilitation-- Medicalization-- Needle exchange programs -- Drug substitution programs -- Drug maintenance programs -- 9. De-profitization of drugs -- Legalization -- Decriminalization -- Regulated distribution -- 10. Federalism, not federalization -- pt. 4. What we can do about it.
- ISBN
- 1566398606 (pbk.)
- 1566398592
- LCCN
- ^^^00047677^
- OCLC
- 45058560
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library