Drugs and thugs : the history and future of America's war on drugs / Russell Crandall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crandall, Russell, 1971- author.

Series:

Yale scholarship online.

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--United States.

Drug control.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.) : 43 b-w illus.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In 'Drugs and Thugs', Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Drugs 101

2. Alcohol

3. Cocaine

4. Opium

5. Cannabis

6. Tobacco

7. Crackdown

8. Amphetamines

9. Alternative Consciousness

10. Nixon’s War

11. Reagan’s War

12. Supply Side

13. Kingpin

14. Plan Colombia

15. Catastrophic Success

16. Our Man in Lima

17. Bolivian Backlash

18. El Narco Mexicano

19. Fear and Loathing in Central America

20. The Global War

21. The War over the War on Drugs

22. Law Enforcement and Incarceration

23. Cannabis Revisited

24. Big Tobacco

25. Psychedelics 2.0

26. The Most American Drug

27. Opioid Nation

Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2021).

ISBN:

0-300-25587-X

OCLC:

1199992485