Cracking Down on Street Drugs
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drug abuse and crime |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drug abuse and crime |
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Author | : Alok Baveja |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Michael Levine |
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1994-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781560250845 |
A memoir by a former undercover DEA agent
Author | : David Farber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425275 |
The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309459575 |
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author | : John Andrew Barbour |
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Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
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Author | : Ruben Castaneda |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1620400057 |
During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix. Castaneda's remarkable book, S Street Rising, is more than a memoir; it's a portrait of a city in crisis. It's the adrenalin-infused story of the street where Castaneda quickly became a regular, and where a fledgling church led by a charismatic and streetwise pastorwas protected by the local drug kingpin, a dangerous man who followed an old-school code of honor. It's the story of Castaneda's friendship with an exceptional police homicide commander whose career was derailed when he ran afoul of Mayor Marion Barry and his political cronies. And it's a study of the city itself as it tried to rise above the bloody crack epidemic and the corrosive politics of the Barry era. S Street Rising is The Wire meets the Oscar-winning movie Crash. And it's all true.
Author | : Michael D. Lyman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2013-11-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317522737 |
This work focuses on the many critical areas of America’s drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Broken up into three sections, Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective.
Author | : Craig Reinarman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1997-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520202429 |
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.
Author | : Gary Webb |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1609802020 |
Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.