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The United States' war on drugs reflects a conflict between a uniquely American and heavily religious-based approach to morality and an equally unique belief in individualism and individual rights. This book shows how these factors also intersect with the racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia in the country to formulate policy in the drug war.
Juan Lindau explains the creation of the drug war, its evolution, its persistence, and its gradual reform. His analysis answers several questions: Why did the U.S. develop the global drug war and why did it use its power to create prohibition? Why did it prohibit some substances but not others? Why did it choose to punish rather than treat users and especially addicts? Why did it punish some more than others and why did it repeatedly double-down on prohibition even in the face of voluminous evidence that these policies were devastating so many countries and communities? And, why does it punish so much more severely than its peers?
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Chapter 1. The Interplay Between a Calvinist Disposition, Individualism and Drugs
Chapter 2.Racism, Calvinism, the American Philosophy of Punishment, and the Drug War
Chapter 3.Origins: The Construction of the Drug Regime and the Prohibition of Alcohol
Chapter 4.Harry Anslinger, the FBN and the Construction of the Post-Prohibition Anti-Drug Regime
Chapter 5.The Counterculture, the Nixon Administration and the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 6. The Seminal Decade: Reagan and the Intensification of the Modern Drug War
Chapter 7.The Impact of the Transformed Drug War on Two Representative Cases: Colombia and Mexico
Chapter 8. Reagan's Immediate Heirs: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush
Chapter 9.Obama, Trump and Biden and the Legalization of Marijuana
Chapter 10.Obama, Trump, and Biden and the Opioid Epidemic
Chapter 11. The Rise and Spread of Harm Reduction Around the World
Chapter 12.The U.S. and Harm Reduction
Chapter 13.The Range of Harm Reduction in Selected U.S. States
Chapter 14.Summary
Chapter 15.Epilogue
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| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9798216439332 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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