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Lies, damned lies, and drug war statistics : a critical analysis of claims made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy / Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Matthew, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- United States.
- Drug control--United States.
- Drug control.
- Drug control--United States--Statistics.
- Drug abuse--Government policy--United States.
- Drug abuse.
- Drug abuse--Government policy.
- Drug abuse--United States--Statistics.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Revised and updated edition that analyses how the Office of National Drug Control Policy employs statistics to misleadingly claim the War on Drugs is a success"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- About America's drug war
- Methodology
- Claims about reducing drug use
- Claims about disrupting drug markets and claims about costs of drug abuse
- A fair assessment of America's drug war
- Conclusions and policy recommendations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438448374
- 1438448376
- 9781438448381
- 1438448384
- OCLC:
- 822028654
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