Illegal Drugs
Illegal Drugs | Cocaine Treatment Programs Are Effective
One doesn’t hear much these days about the war on drugs or the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s that provoked it. A major reason the bellicose rhetoric has subsided and drug-related crime stories have migrated to the inside pages of the nation’s newspapers is that the number of people using cocaine has dropped sharply—from more than 12 million in the early to mid-1980s to 5 million in 1992. Are we to conclude that the threat, if not over, is at least contained and that society has emerged the winner?
Unfortunately, the answer is no. Despite the large decline in the number of...
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- Introduction
- Is There a Drug Abuse Crisis?
- Should Drug Testing Be Allowed?
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Are Antidrug Programs Effective?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- The D.A.R.E. Program Is Effective
- Prison Drug Treatment Programs Are Effective
- Cocaine Treatment Programs Are Effective
- Methadone Is an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction
- The D.A.R.E. Program Has Been Ineffective
- Drug Treatment Programs Are Often Ineffective
- Classroom Drug Education Has Been a Failure
- Should Illegal Drugs Be Legalized?
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