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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

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Drug law reformers have known for years that pronouncements of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the so-called White House drug czar's office, are often less than honest, but until now their evidence has been largely anecdotal. No longer. Authors Robinson and Scherlen put a microscope to the office's official claims over several years and found it consistently lies, tells half-truths, cherry picks facts that support its conclusions, twists facts that expose its failures, withholds pertinent information if it is damaging to the office, and uses other forms of subterfuge to indicate it is winning the war on drugs when plainly it is not. To be sure this is an academic book, written for academe, but it is surprisingly well-written and powerful. The drug war has failed. This book proves it.