The Long War on Drugs / Anne L. Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Anne L., 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Government policy--United States.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse--Law and legislation--United States.

Drug abuse--Prevention.

Drug abuse--Social aspects.

Drug abuse--United States--History.

Drug control--United States--History.

Drug control.

Drug legalization--United States.

Drug legalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Anne L. Foster is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, author of Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941, and coeditor of The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives, both also published by Duke University Press.

Summary:

"Since the early twentieth century, the United States has led a global prohibition effort against certain drugs in which production restriction and criminalization are emphasized over prevention and treatment as means to reduce problematic drug usage. This "war on drugs" is widely seen to have failed, and periodically de-criminalization and legalization movements arise. Debates continue over whether the problems of addiction and crime associated with illicit drug use stem from their illicit status or the nature of the drugs themselves. In The Long War on Drugs Anne L. Foster explores the origin of the punitive approach to drugs and its continued appeal, despite its obvious flaws. She provides a comprehensive overview, focusing not only on a political history of policy developments, but also on changes in medical practice and knowledge of drugs. Foster also outlines the social and cultural changes prompting different attitudes about drugs, the racial, environmental, and social justice implications of particular drug policies, and the international consequences of US drug policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Meaning of Drugs

The Many Uses of Drugs

The Battle for Prohibition, 1890-1940

Identifying the Problem, 1880-1900

Deciding on Prohibition, 1898-1909

International Conferences, 1909-1936

Changing Practice and Policy in Medicine and Public Health

To a Declaration of War on Drugs, 1940-1980

Opportunities of World War II and Its Aftermath

US Laws and International Conventions, 1945-1970

Who Is Using? 1950-1990

War on Drugs Declared

Blurring the Lines, 1980-Present

Mandatory Minimums

Eradicating Drugs and the Environment

Marijuana's Different Path

New Challenges to the War on Drugs

Never-Ending War on Drugs?

Notes:

Includes index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478093954

1478093951

9781478027553

147802755X

OCLC:

1404455030

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access