Preface

Chapter One
Realities of Reform: Basic Questions

The Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs
Gerald Le Dain

The Many Forms of Legalization: Beyond 'Whether' to 'How'
Richard M. Evans

Legalization of Gambling as a Model for Drug-Law Reform
Rufus King

Legalization at any Cost
Christina Jacqueline Johns

Why Drug Law Reformers Should Pursue a Marijuana Legalization Policy First
Dan Viets

Does Calling Illegal Drugs Evil Become a Trap?
Clark Hosmer

Some Ethical and Jurisprudential Issues in Drug Decriminalization
David Wasserman

Decriminalization Is Not Enough
Horst Senger

Health Promotion and Protection of Civil Rights of Drug Users
Line Beauchesne

Chapter Two
Views From The Criminal Justice System

Images of Death and Destruction in Drug Law Cases
Steven Wisotsky

Combatting Substance Abuse in Inner Cities: A Proactive Police Perspective on New Initiatives Concerning Demand Reduction Strategies
Nicholas Pastore

A Policeman's Surveillance Report: Keeping an Eye on the Trail of the Bennett Plan
Ralph Salerno

Gang Involvement, Drug Trafficking and Criminal Activity of Las Vegas Core Gang Members
Carole Case, Theodore Snodgrass and Ronald A. Farrell

Managing the Drug Problem
Daniel J. Cashman

Chapter Three
Racism: The Enduring Barrier

The Black Community and the "War on Drugs"
Ray M. Brown

Urban Neighborhoods and the War on Drugs
Lois Lovelace Duke

Laws and Racial Discrimination in the United States: A Historical Overview
James T. DeVidts

Drugs and Market Structure: Is There Really a Drug Crisis in the Black Community?
Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

Chapter Four
Militarization and Demilitarization

The Military Analogy and Drug Control
Grant Wardlaw

Demilitarization of the War on Drugs: Toward an Alternative Drug Strategy
Henry H. Brownstein

Military Makes War on U.S. Drug Culture
Matthew Reiss

Chapter Five
Debacle in Latin America

International Drug Policy: Insight from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Mark Heil

Critique of Cocaine Reduction Policies in Latin America
Jules A. Gylys

The International Curse: The Supply and Demand of the Coca Trade
Susan Hamilton Saavedra

U.S. Drug Policy and Andean Narcoeconomic Realities
Peter Andreas

Stealing Fair and Square: The Invasion of Panama
Christina Jacqueline Johns

Chapter Six
Europe Moves Forward

Taking Drugs Seriously: The Liverpool Experience
Allan Parry

Pussy Cats and Lions: British vs. U.S. Drug Problems
Jerry Mandel

The Failure of Prohibitionism in Eastern Europe
John Bok

Alcohol Consumption Reform in the USSR: Successes, Problems, Difficulties
Boris M. Levin and Michael B. Levin

Basis of Dutch Policy
C.F. Rüter

Chapter Seven
AIDS: The Ignored Threat

Preventing the Spread of AIDS Will Encourage Abstinence From Drug Use
Jon Parker

Love Doesn't Protect: HIV Risk and Condom Use
Cherni Gillman and Harvey Feldman

Intravenous Drug Use and HIV Seropositivity: A Historical and Ethical Look
Brandon D. Pomeroy

A Community-Based Effort to Establish Legal Needle Exchange in the State of Hawaii...
Aaron Peak

Creating A Profession: Training Outreach Workers for AIDS Intervention Among Drug Users   
Michael R. Aldrich

Chapter Eight

The Hope of Treatment and Prevention

Màpping the Drug Testing Industry and Its Implications
Lynn Zimmer and James B. Jacobs

Winning the War on Drugs
John S. Duff

A Social Worker Looks at the Drug Problem
Elizabeth C. Olson

Fallacies and Unstated Assumptions in Prevention and Treatment
Thomas L. Wayburn

Notes on a Proposed Substance Abuse Prevention Program for High-Risk Youth
Ronald A. Farrell, Patricia Ritter and Randall G. Shelden

Political Implications of Drug/Alcohol Treatment Program Ideologies
Ellen Luff

A Research Program for the Early Identification and Treatment of Drug/Alcohol Addiction
C. Ray Jeffery

A Libertarian Antiprohibitionism and the Pharmacological Treatment of Ego-Dystonic Recreational Drug Use
Arthur P. Lecesse

Chapter Nine
The Dynamics of Abuse

Adverse Effects of Cocaine on the Heart: A Critical Review
B.K. Alexander & L.S. Wong

Addiction: Crime or Disease
Henry N. Blansfield and Jane M. Blansfield

The Ever-Changing, Ever-Confused Popular Conception Of Cocaine
Douglas A. Willinger

Addiction?
Robert M. Goodman

Chapter Ten
Psycho-Social Theories and Ideologies

Under the Influence of Prohibitionism: Drug Policy Debate and Processes Still Serve a Discredited, Dangerously Extremist Philosophy
Dave Fratello

An Examination of Social Forces, or The Reformer's Manifesto
Mike Rosing

Cognitive Science, Religion and Academic Freedom vs. The Drug Prohibition Ideology
Thomas B. Roberts

Some Psychological Aspects of Opposition to the Concept of Legalization of Drugs
Joanna Chapin

Changing Media Presentations of the Drug User: the Social Deconstruction of Moral Devils
Albert DiChiara

"And Other Dangerous Freedoms": The Rhetoric of Drug Czars Harry J. Anslinger and William J. Bennett
Rebecca Carroll

The Real Drug Menace Is George Bush
Art Hilgart

Violence in Drug Trafficking: An Optimal Strategy for Dealers
Nancy Lord