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War On Drugs Alfred W. Mccoy

War On Drugs By Alfred W. Mccoy

War On Drugs by Alfred W. Mccoy


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Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working.

War On Drugs Summary

War On Drugs: Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy by Alfred W. Mccoy

Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working.

About Alfred W. Mccoy

Alfred W. Mccoy, Alan A Block

Table of Contents

1 U.S. Narcotics Policy: An Anatomy of Failure PART ONE: United States Narcotics Policy 2 International Narcotics Control: Bush's *other War* --Are We Winning or Losing? 3 Failures at Home and Abroad: Studies in the Implementation of U.S. Drug Policy PART TWO: Latin America's Cocaine Traffic 4 Reinforcing Poverty: The Bolivian War on Cocaine 5 Colombia's Cocaine Syndicates 6 Honduras, the Contra Support Networks, and Cocaine: How the U.S. Government Has Augmented America's Drug Crisis 7 Drug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues 8 CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection 9 A Smuggler's Paradise: Cocaine Trafficking Through the Bahamas PART THREE: Asia's Heroin Trade 10 Heroin as a Global Commodity: A History of Southeast Asia's Opium Trade 11 Heroin and Highland Insurgency in the Golden Triangle 12 Pakistan: The Empire of Heroin

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NPB9780367217280
9780367217280
0367217287
War On Drugs: Studies In The Failure Of U.s. Narcotics Policy by Alfred W. Mccoy
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-06-30
372
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