Analytic Assessment of US Drug Policy

Name: Analytic Assessment of US Drug Policy
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ISBN: 9780844741918

ISBN-10: 0844741914

ISBN-13: 9780844741918

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Boyum, Peter Reuter

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In its efforts to control the use of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and other illegal drugs, the United States spends about $35 billion per year in public funds. Almost half a million dealers and users are under incarceration. In this book, David Boyum and Peter Reuter provide an assessment of how well this massive investment of tax dollars and government authority is working. Boyum and Reuter show that America's drug problem is mainly a legacy of the epidemics of heroin, cocaine, and crack use during the 1970s and 1980s, which left us with aging cohorts of criminally active and increasingly sick users. Newer drugs, such as Ecstasy and methamphetamine, perennially threaten to become comparable…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 133
Size: 6.42" wide x 8.96" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

William N. Brownsberger is Associate Director for Public Policy at the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School.



Foreword


Historical development


America's drug problems


Current policies


Policy effectiveness


Policy reform