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Revised and updated, this book argues that Americans need not give in to despair when it comes to the persistent problem of drug abuse. Falco showcases effective prevention, treatment, and law enforcement strategies from around the country. This information will shape the debate in 1994 midterm elections. Includes a foreword by Michael Crichton.
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In a nation looking for ideas on the issue of illegal drugs, Mathea Falco offers a sweeping set. Falco, a lawyer who served in the State Department of the Carter Administration's anti-narcotics bureau and advised the 1992 Clinton campaign on drug policy, spent five years trying to find answers to drug question by visiting schools, treatments centers and clinics--places where a large part of the drug is being waged. Her proposals are too lengthy to list here, though it is fair to say "reducing demand, changing attitudes and engaging citizen participation" in her mind is better than an emphasis on the criminal justice system. Money earmarked for prisons should instead go to treatment centers, she maintains, and the United States must adopt and attitude of community restoration rather than combat.
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An assistant secretary of State during the Carter administration, attorney Falco rightly emphasizes that reducing demand for drugs is a more viable goal than trying to cut the supply. Believing that both legalization of drugs and a draconian crackdown are unwise, she surveys a broad range of programs, including those that teach prevention in the schools; that test for drugs in the workplace and offer confidential assistance to users; and that operate therapeutic communities to treat addicts. Her brief snapshots, however, are more anecdotal than comprehensive; how much can citizen groups really do to drive out inner-city dealers? More importantly, Falco fails to address the issues of financing and organizing such programs. "What we need is not more money but an entirely new strategy," she concludes, a somewhat insufficient response to the crisis she so capably describes. Author tour.
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