Drugs in society: causes, concepts and control (paperback)

Part I: Understanding the Problem

1. The Nature of the Drug Problem

2. The History of Drug Abuse

3. Understanding Drugs of Abuse

4. The Illicit Drug Trade

5. Domestic Drug Production

6. Drugs and Crime

Part II: Gangs and Drugs

7. Organized Crime and the Drug Trade

8. Domestic Drug-Trafficking Organizations

9. Foreign Drug-Trafficking Organizations

Part III: Fighting Back

10. The Drug Control Initiative

11. Critical Issues in Drug Control

12. The Issue of Legalizing Drugs

13. Understanding Drug Control Policy

14. Control through Treatment and Prevention

Students in the criminal justice field