In the 4 decades since President Richard Nixon first declared war on drugs, the U.S. counterdrug strategy has remained virtually unchanged -- favoring supply-reduction, law enforcement and criminal sanctions over demand-reduction, treatment, and education. While the annual counterdrug budget has bal...

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1. Verfasser:	Walther, Michael F. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Carlisle, PA Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College 2012
Schriftenreihe:	Strategic Studies Institute monograph
Schlagworte:	Drug control / United States Drug control / United States / Costs Drug control / United States / History Geschichte USA
Zusammenfassung:	In the 4 decades since President Richard Nixon first declared war on drugs, the U.S. counterdrug strategy has remained virtually unchanged -- favoring supply-reduction, law enforcement and criminal sanctions over demand-reduction, treatment, and education. While the annual counterdrug budget has ballooned from $100 million to $25 billion, the availability of most illicit drugs remains at an all-time high. The human cost is staggering -- nearly 40,000 drug-related deaths in the United States annually. The societal impact, in purely economic terms, is now estimated to be approximately $200 billion per year. The global illicit drug industry now accounts for 1 percent of all commerce on the planet -- approximately $320 billion annually. Legalization is almost certainly not the answer; however, an objective analysis of available data confirms that: 1) the United States has pursued essentially the same flawed supply-reduction strategy for 40 years; and, 2) simply increasing the amount of money invested each year in this strategy will not make it successful. Faced with impending budget cuts and a future of budget austerity, policymakers must replace the longstanding U.S. counterdrug strategy with a pragmatic, science-based, demand-reduction strategy that offers some prospect of reducing the economic and societal impacts of illicit drugs on American society
Beschreibung:	"December 2012.". - Includes errata slip Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-45) The Nixon and Ford administrations : 1969-77 -- The Carter administration : 1976-80 -- The Reagan administration : 1981-89 -- The George H. W. Bush administration : 1989-93 -- The Clinton administration : 1993-2001 -- The George W. Bush administration : 2001-09 -- The Obama administration : 2009- -- Proposal for an armistice : ending the insanity
Beschreibung:	VII, 45 S. Ill. 28 cm
ISBN:	1584875615 9781584875611