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An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy

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This book concludes that AmericaOs drug policy should be reoriented in several ways to be more effective.
  • 01 December 2005
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This is a rigorous, eye-opening evaluation of America's $35 billion drug war, where David Boyum and Peter Reuter use a market framework to examine the epidemics of heroin, cocaine, and crack, mass incarceration, drug enforcement, and federal narcotics laws, showing why treatment, methadone maintenance, and coerced abstinence programs may offer smarter, cheaper, and more effective answers to drug abuse and crime than tougher policing ever could.


This book concludes that AmericaOs drug policy should be reoriented in several ways to be more effective.
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Price: $20.00
Pages: 133
Publisher: AEI Press
Imprint: AEI Press
Series: AEI Evaluative Studies
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780844741918
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General, Coping with / advice about addiction, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, LAW / Criminal Procedure, Police & security services, Crime & criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Criminal procedure
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