The Summit of the Americas and the Fight Against Drugs
Author | : Fernando Cepeda Ulloa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fernando Cepeda Ulloa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Crime prevention |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drug control |
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Author | : Sam Quinones |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1547601418 |
As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current opiate crisis. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller pushed by pharmaceutical companies, paralleled the massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel. Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharmaceutical pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, teens, and parents--Dreamland is a revelatory account of the massive threat facing America and its heartland.
Author | : Arnold S. Trebach |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Spine title: The great drug war. Includes index.
Author | : Hanna Samir Kassab |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498524001 |
This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether major differences or continuities truly exist between the foreign policies of Bush and Obama, especially given the perception of American decline. The volume highlights Obama’s foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on issue areas that threaten international security, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This work provides both theoretical and policy insights for academics and policy analysts interested in foreign affairs.
Author | : Victor J. Hinojosa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135912262 |
This book examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia. Victor J. Hinojosa finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia and that the US often satisfies domestic political pressures to be tough on drugs by punishing Colombia while allowing Mexico much more freedom to pursue different strategies. He also explores the role of domestic terrorism and presidential reputation in Colombia for the US-Colombia pair and the role of competing issues in the US-Mexican bilateral agenda for that country pair, finding that congressional pressure and electoral tests exert the most impact on US behavior but that Mexican and Colombian behavior is best explained in other ways. Together, these findings suggest both the promise of integrating the study of international relations and comparative politics and important limitations of the theoretical framework.
Author | : Travis Lupick |
Publisher | : arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1551527138 |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition, and policy-makers are finally beginning to look at addiction as a health issue as opposed to one for the criminal justice system. While deaths across the continent continue to climb, Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens. Over the past twenty-five years, this group of residents from Canada's poorest neighborhood organized themselves in response to the growing number of overdose deaths and demanded that addicts be given the same rights as any other citizen; against all odds, they eventually won. But just as their battle came to an end, fentanyl arrived and opioid deaths across North America reached an all-time high. The "genocide" in Vancouver finally sparked government action. Twenty years later, as the same pattern plays out in other cities, there is much that advocates for reform can learn from Vancouver's experience. Fighting for Space tells that story—including case studies in Ohio, Florida, New York, California, Massachusetts, and Washington state—with the same passionate fervor as the activists whose tireless work gave dignity to addicts and saved countless lives. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author | : Betty Horwitz |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780857288196 |
This book explores the extent and significance of the transformation of the Organisation of American States since 1991: its roots, the reasons for and extent of its emergence, and the role that the organisation currently plays in the promotion of regional governance in the two key issue-areas of security and the defense and promotion of democratic norms and principles of good governance. By assessing where the OAS has succeeded and failed, Horwitz provides an in-depth explanation of how cooperation and consensus works in the Inter-American system.