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| Tables and figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Intoxicating substances in historical perspective | |
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| The role of drugs in global society | |
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| Opium and empire | |
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| The Chinese opium market | |
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| The drift to regulation and the idea of prohibition | |
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| Drug consumption in the western market | |
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| The advent of control: Britain and America contrasted | |
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| The US modernization experience: tension and protest | |
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| The alcohol prohibition movement and experience | |
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| From regulation to control: the internationalization of drug prohibition | |
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| The anti-opium campaign in Britain | |
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| Enter America: the anti-opium campaign of the US government | |
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| The Shanghai Conference of 1909 and its impact | |
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| The beginnings of international drug control | |
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| From principle to policy | |
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| Evaluating the early drug control system | |
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| Domestic drug control | |
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| The post-war international drug control regime | |
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| The United Nations and drug control | |
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| The post-war model: prohibition victory? | |
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| Rebellion and division within the drug control system | |
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| Trends in drug consumption | |
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| The knowledge gap | |
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| Patterns of controlled drug use | |
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| Consumption dynamics in the 2000s | |
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| Trends in cultivation and production | |
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| Opiates, supply reduction and the rise of the Golden Triangle | |
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| Supply expansion and the Golden Crescent | |
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| Coca and cocaine | |
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| The manufacture and supply of other controlled drugs | |
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| The traffic in and traffickers of controlled drugs | |
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| Accounting for failure: the problem of prohibition | |
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| The limits of prohibition | |
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| The economics of the drug trade | |
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| Accounting for failure 2: institutions and policy | |
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| Alternative development | |
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| Research: a hostile environment | |
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| Demand-side neglect | |
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| By way of a conclusion: institutional crisis and decline | |
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| The political impact of drugs and drug control | |
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| The importance of state presence | |
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| Anti-drug responses: more harm than good? | |
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| United States: the heart of the problem | |
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| Full circle: more harm than good? | |
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| HIV/AIDS and intravenous drug use | |
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| The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS | |
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| The rise of the post-Soviet drug problem | |
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| IDU-related sub-epidemics: the global picture | |
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| From IDUs to broader infection | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International drug control and HIV/AIDS | |
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| Harm reduction and injecting drug use | |
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| Injecting drug use and prisons | |
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| Opposition to harm reduction | |
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| A problem caused by drug control? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cultivation and drug production: the environmental costs | |
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| The greening of the drugs issue | |
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| The environmental costs of narcotic plant cultivation | |
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| Drug production and the environment | |
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| Drugs and the environment: a credible debate? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Anti-drug policies and the environment: the role of chemical fumigation | |
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| US fumigation strategies in historical context: the Mexican experience | |
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| Contemporary fumigation strategies: Plan Colombia | |
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| The impact of chemical fumigation with Glyphosate | |
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| The politics of fumigation | |
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| By way of a conclusion | |
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| The new magic bullet: bio-control solutions | |
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| The evolution of the mycoherbicide strategy | |
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| The Fusarium debate | |
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| The direction of mycoherbicide research | |
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| The politics of mycoherbicides | |
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| The challenge of US unilateralism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A note on hemp | |
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| A brief history of hemp | |
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| The economic causes of hemp's decline | |
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| The political causes of hemp's decline | |
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| The contemporary hemp revolution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| By way of a conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |