The drug wars in America, 1940-1973 /

The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frydl, Kathleen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Trade in war
  • Presumptions and pretense : international trade in narcotics
  • A society which requires some sort of sedation : domestic drug consumption, circulation, and perception
  • Review and reform : the Kennedy Commission
  • Police and clinics : enforcement and treatment in the city, 1960-1973
  • The cost of denial : Vietnam and the global diversity of the drug trade.