The Search for Rational Drug Control (Paperback, Revised)

Preface; Part I. The Drug Problem: Introduction; 1. Ideology and policy - a look at the national drug control strategy; 2. What is a drug? and other basic issues; 3. Prohibitions and the lessons of history; 4. The wrong question: critical notes on the decriminalization debate; Part II. The Drug Control Policy Process: Introduction; 5. The universal proposition - children and drug control policy; 6. Drug control policy and street crime; 7. The federal role in a national drug strategy; 8. Memorandum to a new drug czar; Appendix; References.