Study & Research Drug Abuse

This Study Guide consists of approximately 163 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Drug Abuse.
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Study & Research Drug Abuse

This Study Guide consists of approximately 163 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Drug Abuse.
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1. Joseph McNamara uses the term “war on drugs” throughout his viewpoint. However, Barry R. McCaffrey believes that the phrase is a poor metaphor for U.S. drug policy. Do you think the metaphor is appropriate? Explain your answer.
2. U.S. drug policy consists of several different strategies: domestic law enforcement, antidrug education and prevention efforts, treatment for addicts, interdiction of drugs entering the country, and destruction of international drug trafficking organizations and sources of supply. None of the authors in this chapter, however, give equal treatment to all these parts of U.S. drug strategy. Which drug policy programs do Joseph McNamara, Barry R. McCaffrey, David Boaz, and Charles E. Grassley emphasize the most? Why do you think each author may have focused on some aspects of drug policy and avoided others"
3. Harm reduction policies do not condemn drug use but seek only to...

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