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A team of veteran drug researchers in medicine, law, and the social sciences provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack cocaine problem in America to date. Helps readers understand why the United States has the most repressive, expensive, yet least effective drug policy in the Western world.
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In the spring of 1986, American politicians and news media began an extraordinary antidrug frenzy that ran until 1992. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
punitive prohibition, systemic homicides, crack scare, heavy cocaine smokers, heavy crack use, drug relatedness, drug prohibition laws, smokeable cocaine, national alcohol prohibition, crack crisis, antidrug movement, drug law violators, harsh drug laws, powder users, drug scares, drug enforcement efforts, drug policy reform, crack users, homicide events, instant addiction, inactive users, antidrug crusades, continuous users, powder cocaine, crack sales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In the spring of 1986, American politicians and news media began an extraordinary antidrug frenzy that ran until 1992. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
punitive prohibition, systemic homicides, crack scare, heavy cocaine smokers, heavy crack use, drug relatedness, drug prohibition laws, smokeable cocaine, national alcohol prohibition, crack crisis, antidrug movement, drug law violators, harsh drug laws, powder users, drug scares, drug enforcement efforts, drug policy reform, crack users, homicide events, instant addiction, inactive users, antidrug crusades, continuous users, powder cocaine, crack sales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, National Institute, United States, Craig Reinarman, White House, San Francisco, New Haven, Los Angeles, National Household Survey, University of Chicago Press, Drug Enforcement Administration, Yale University Press, Washington Post, Government Printing Office, Lexington Books, Supreme Court, Fourth Amendment, Lester Grinspoon, Spanish Harlem, Basic Books, Contemporary Drug Problems, Temple University Press, University of Amsterdam, World War, Free Press New!
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