{"product_id":"drugs-and-drug-policy-what-everyone-needs-to-knowr-9780199764501","title":"Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)","description":"While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDrugs and Drug Policy\u003c\/em\u003e, three noted authorities survey the subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, \u003cem\u003eWhat Everyone Needs to Know(R)\u003c\/em\u003e. They begin, by defining drugs, examining how they work in the brain, discussing the nature of addiction, and exploring the damage they do to users. The book moves on to policy, answering questions about legalization, the role of criminal prohibitions, and the relative legal tolerance for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dissect the illicit trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effect of catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationship between drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its effectiveness and the role of public policy, and discuss the beneficial effects of some abusable substances. Finally they move outward to look at the role of drugs in our foreign policy, their relationship to terrorism, and the ugly politics that surround the issue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is a handy and up-to-date overview of one of the most pressing topics in today's world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Everyone Needs to Know\u003c\/em\u003e(R) is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Angela Hawken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.63w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199764501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Kleiman \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and editor of The Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. He is Washington state's lead adviser on the legalization of marijuana, and was named by Politico Magazine as one of the Politico 50, a list of the key thinkers, doers and visionaries reshaping\u003cbr\u003eAmerican politics. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhen Brute Force Fails\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAgainst Excess\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan P. Caulkins\u003c\/strong\u003e is Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngela Hawken \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39988419887219,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ba7a6494-321b-472b-aa1c-64ddb18f3cab.jpg?v=1649771418","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/drugs-and-drug-policy-what-everyone-needs-to-knowr-9780199764501","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}