Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics And The Origins Of America's Global Drug War (Culture And Politics In The Cold War And Beyond)

What we call the drug war is a series of wars stretching back nearly a century. And those wars, like the Cold War with which they overlapped, served many ends including national security interests and partisan politics. They did not serve, the goal of keeping Americans free of addiction, a plague now worse at the end of a century of drug warring.

• | Author: Matthew R. Pembleton
• | Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1625343167
• | ISBN-13: 9781625343161