02904cam a2200373 a 4500 16511694 BJBSDDR 20231110112617.0 ta 101021s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 2010044983 9780199764501 DLC DLC DLC spa eng HV 5801 K63d 2011 362.29 22 Kleiman, Mark, 1951-2019 29484 Drugs and drug policy : what everyone needs to know / Mark A.R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Angela Hawken. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. xxi, 234 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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? In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know®. 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 Drug abuse. Abuso de drogas 6532 Drug control. Control de drogas y narcóticos 6531 Drug traffic. Tráfico de drogas 19967 Caulkins, Jonathan P., (Jonathan Paul), 1965- 29485 Hawken, Angela, 1971- 29486 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 119249 119249 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-05-02 0 HV 5801 K63d 2011 00000169861 2023-05-02 00:00:00 1 2023-05-02 BK