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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Nature of things
    part number: Part 1
    part name: Dealing with drugs
  name:
    name part: Mathur, Vishnu
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (54 minutes)
  abstract: Is drug abuse a health problem or a criminal justice problem? This program shows how the drug problem is being addressed in four major cities: New York, Toronto, Amsterdam and Liverpool. In Amsterdam and Liverpool drug users are treated as people who are sick, not evil. They are given needles, syringes, medical care and in some cases the drug itself. Street crime has dropped. Addicts are able to lead a more normal life and not resort to crime and prostitution. New York is a city in chaos, wracked by drugs and the effort to root them out. Stern drug laws have not provided an answer. Police and court resources have been diverted from crimes like murder and rape. Also, incarcerating small-time drug users in overcrowded prisons does not cure their addiction. Canada's public policy is somewhere between Europe's liberal approach and America's hard line. This film questions our underlying assumptions about illegal drug use and offers a new approach to this devastating social illustrations.
  target audience: adult
  note: produced and directed by Vishnu Mathur.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 09, 2015).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Drug abuse
  subject:
    topic: Drug addicts
  subject:
    topic: Narcotic laws
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 151109
    record change date: 20260324201632.8
    record identifier: in00003750363
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng