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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Drugs and Public Policy | |
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| Are Laws Against Drug Legalization Effective? | |
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| Yes: from "An Effective Drug Policy to Protect America's Youth and Communities," Fordham Urban Law Journal (January 2003) | |
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| No: from "The War at Home: Our Jails Overflow with Nonviolent Drug Offenders. Have We Reached the Point Where the Drug War Causes More Harm Than the Drugs Themselves?" Sojourners (May/June 2003) | |
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| Should the United States Put More Emphasis on Stopping the Importation of Drugs? | |
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| Yes: from The National Drug Control Strategy (February 2005) | |
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| No: from "The DEA, CIA, DoD, & Narcotrafficking," Z Magazine (July/August 2004) | |
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| Will a Lower Blood Alcohol Level for Drunk Driving Reduce Automobile Accidents? | |
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| Yes: from "Does Setting Limits Save Lives? The Case of 0.08 BAC Laws," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (vol. 20, no. 1, 2001) | |
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| No: from "How Effective Are '.08' Drunk-Driving Laws?" Consumers' Research Magazine (August 1999) | |
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| Should We Be Concerned About "Club Drugs"? | |
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| Yes: from Club Drugs (Office of National Drug Control Policy, January 12, 2005) | |
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| No: from "Sex, Drugs and Techno Music," Reason (January 2002) | |
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| Should Pregnant Drug Users Be Prosecuted? | |
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| Yes: from "Drugs in the Womb: The Newest Battlefield in the War on Drugs," Criminal Justice Ethics (Winter/Spring 1990) | |
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| No: from "Perinatal Care for Women Who Are Addicted: Implications for Empowerment," Health and Social Work (August 2002) | |
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| Should Drug Addiction Be Considered a Disease? | |
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| Yes: from "Predicting Addiction," American Scientist (March/April 2005) | |
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| No: from "H: The Surprising Truth About Heroin and Addiction," Reason (June 2003) | |
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| Do Steroids Pose a Large Risk to Athletes and Others Who Use Them? | |
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| Yes: from Steroid Abuse in Today's Society (U.S. Department of Justice, March 2004) | |
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| No: from "Societal Alternatives," in Charles E. Yesalis, ed., Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise, 2nd ed. (Human Kinetics, 2000) | |
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| Drugs and Social Policy | |
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| Are the Adverse Effects of Smoking Exaggerated? | |
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| Yes: from "Lies, Damned Lies, and 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths," Regulation (vol. 21, no. 4, 1998) | |
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| No: from The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General (Centers for Disease Control, 2004) | |
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| Should Laws Prohibiting Marijuana Use Be Relaxed? | |
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| Yes: from "An End to Marijuana Prohibition," National Review (July 12, 2004) | |
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| No: from Marijuana Myths and Facts: The Truth Behind 10 Popular Misconceptions (2004) | |
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| Are Psychotherapeutic Drugs Effective for Treating Mental Illness? | |
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| Yes: from "Mind and Medicine: Drug Treatments for Psychiatric Illnesses," Social Research (Fall 2001) | |
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| No: from The Truth About Depression: Choices for Healing (Health Communications, 2003) | |
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| Do the Consequences of Caffeine Consumption Outweigh Its Benefits? | |
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| Yes: Men's Health, from "Start Me Up," Men's Health (October 2004) | |
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| No: Harvard Women's Health Watch, from "Coffee: For Most, It's Safe," Harvard Women's Health Watch (September 2004) | |
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| Is Ritalin an Effective Drug for Treating Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? | |
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| Yes: from "Trick Question," The New Republic (February 3, 2003) | |
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| No: from "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder," Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (January 2003) | |
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| Do Consumers Benefit When Prescription Drugs Are Advertised? | |
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| Yes: from "Advertising Drugs Is Good for Patients," Consumers' Research Magazine (August 2001) | |
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| No: from The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (Public Affairs, 2003) | |
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| Drug Prevention and Treatment | |
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| Does Secondhand Smoke Endanger the Health of Nonsmokers? | |
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| Yes: from "Secondhand Smoke-Firsthand Pollution: Tiny Smokestacks Poison a Room," You Are the Target. Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams-Now the Truth (Chryan Communications, 2002) | |
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| No: from "Reanalysis of Epidemiological Evidence on Lung Cancer and Passive Smoking," British Medical Journal (February 12, 2000) | |
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| Is Alcoholism Hereditary? | |
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| Yes: from "The Genetics of Alcoholism," Alcohol Alert (July 2003) | |
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| No: from "Alcoholism's Unnatural History: Alcoholism Is Not a 'Health' Issue, But One of Personal and Existential Pain. Recognising This Would Force Us to Acknowledge One of the Most Successful Methods of Dealing With Alcohol Addiction," Arena Magazine (April/May 2004) | |
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| Should Moderate Alcohol Consumption Be Encouraged? | |
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| Yes: from "Roles of Drinking Pattern and Type of Alcohol Consumed in Coronary Heart Disease in Men," The New England Journal of Medicine (January 9, 2003) | |
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| No: from State of the Science Report on the Effects of Moderate Drinking (National Institutes of Health, December 19, 2003) | |
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| Should Schools Drug-Test Students? | |
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| Yes: from What You Need to Know About Drug Testing in Schools (2002) | |
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| No: from Making Sense of Student Drug Testing: Why Educators Are Saying No (American Civil Liberties Union and the Drug Policy Alliance, January 2004) | |
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| Does Drug Abuse Treatment Work? | |
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| Yes: from Services Research Outcomes Study (SROS) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, January 28, 2004) | |
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| No: from Investing in Drug Abuse Treatment (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2003) | |
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| Do Tobacco Advertisements Influence People to Smoke? | |
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| Yes: from "Women and Children First: Tobacco Targets the Vulnerable," You Are the Target. Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams-Now the Truth (Chryan Communications, 2002) | |
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| No: from "Teenage Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Popular Consumer Magazines," Journal of Advertising (Fall 2003) | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |