Our current approach to drug abuse--progress, problems, proposals.

Most drug-abuse experts and historians agree that we are in the declining phase of a drug epidemic that began about 30 years ago. Still, drug abuse remains one of the nation's critical domestic problems, linked to crime, neglect of children, family violence, incomplete education, homelessness, AIDS, high health care costs, urban decay, and diminished economic competitiveness. Until we reduce the current level of addiction and the experimentation that leads many people to that end, individual tragedies and profound social problems will continue to undermine the quality of our lives. Most people are poor judges of their own susceptibility to addiction. . . .

[1]  P. Reuter.  The Limits and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Drug Control Efforts , 1992, Drugs and Foreign Policy.

[2]  C. O'brien,et al.  Private substance abuse treatments: are some programs more effective than others? , 1993, Journal of substance abuse treatment.

[3]  Jack Homer,et al.  Projecting the Impact of Law Enforcement on Cocaine Prevalence: A System Dynamics Approach , 1993 .

[4]  D. Landry,et al.  Antibody-catalyzed degradation of cocaine. , 1993, Science.

[5]  Mark A. R. Kleiman,et al.  Against Excess: Drug Policy For Results , 1992 .

[6]  G. Uhl,et al.  Cloning and expression of a cocaine-sensitive dopamine transporter complementary DNA. , 1991, Science.

[7]  W. McAuliffe.  Health care policy issues in the drug abuser treatment field. , 1990, Journal of health politics, policy and law.

[8]  J. Strang,et al.  The lure of masterstrokes: drug legalization. , 1990, British journal of addiction.

[9]  E. Nadelmann,et al.  Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives , 2022 .

[10]  J. Inciardi,et al.  Legalization: A High-Risk Alternative in the War on Drugs. , 1989 .

[11]  A. Saiger,et al.  Drug Legalization: The Importance of Asking the Right Question Symposium on Drug Decriminalization , 1989 .

[12]  William L. White,et al.  White, W. (1979). Themes in chemical prohibition. In Drugs in perspective. Rockville, MD: National Drug Abuse Center/National Institute on Drug Abuse. , 1979 .

[13]  David F. Musto,et al.  The American disease : origins of narcotic control , 1974 .