NCJ Number
140061
Editor(s)
A S Trebach,
K B Zeese
Date Published
1990
Length
337 pages
Annotation
This volume comprehensively addresses drug policy issues by incorporating perspectives related to criminal justice, racism, Latin American drug production and control, AIDS, drug abuse, drug treatment and prevention, and psychosocial theories.
Abstract
Chapters look at drug legalization, ethical and jurisprudential issues in drug decriminalization, health promotion, civil rights of drug users, drug law cases, substance abuse in inner cities, gang involvement in drug trafficking, and the impact of the drug war on black communities and urban neighborhoods. Consideration is also given to the role of the military in drug control, cocaine production in Latin America, drug regulation in Europe, and alcohol consumption reform in the former Soviet Union. Other chapters focus on AIDS prevention, intravenous drug use and HIV seropositivity, needle exchange programs, drug testing, drug treatment and prevention, the dynamics of drug abuse, and psychosocial theories and ideologies relevant to the drug policy debate. References and tables