Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It : a Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs / James P. Gray.

"Veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor Judge James P. Gray believes drug prohibition remains one of our country's biggest failed policies. In this updated edition of his bestseller, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What Can We Do About It, Judge Gray provides startling informa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gray, James P., 1945- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2012.
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Drug abuse > Government policy > United States. Drug control > United States. PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction. SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology. Drug abuse > Government policy Drug control United States
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Table of Contents:

pt. I. Introduction
pt. II. Our drug laws have failed
1. Past and present
A historical perspective
Emergence of the prison-industrial complex
2. Increased harm to communities
Communities awash in illicit drugs
Violence and corruption
Domestic
Foreign
3. Erosion of protections of the Bill of Rights: where's Paul Revere?
4. Increased harm to drug users
Demonization
Deterioration of health
5. Increased harm for the future
Conspiracy theories
Government policy: don't discuss it!
pt. III. Options
6. Increased zero tolerance
7. Education
8. Drug treatment
Rehabilitation
Medicalization
Needle-exchange programs
Drug-substitution programs
Drug maintenance programs
9. Deprofitization of drugs
Legalization
Decriminalization
Regulated distribution
10. Federalism, not federalization
pt. IV. What we can do about it
Appendix A. Resolution
Appendix B. Government Commission reports and other public inquiries.

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It : a Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs / James P. Gray.

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