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Encourages readers to examine the motivation for drug use, social implications of drug use, legal ramifications, and factors affecting how drugs interact with the human body. Provides a look at the history and culture of drug use and abuse, key information on specific types of drugs, treatment, education, and prevention.

Legal control on drug abuse and drug traffic in India.

Explores highly controversial issues surrounding drug use, drug abuse, and the legalization of drugs.

These guidelines developed by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) are to be used by agencies to conduct the pre-employment drug screening that should be a component of their comprehensive substance abuse programs. The guidelines are designed to help law enforcement agencies implement legally defensible and cost-efficient programs. A brief discussion of legal issues concerning drug screening of prospective employees covers the relevant court decisions and Federal guidelines contained in the Americans with Disabilities Act. The section on technical issues discusses some of the important program considerations regarding specimen collection, analytical methodologies, substances to be tested, and laboratories. The section on procedural issues addresses the logistics of moving applicants through the drug screening process in a secure and efficient way and examines issues including collection site security, chain of custody, and personal privacy. National Institute on Drug Abuse specimen collection guidelines are outlined, current California law enforcement policies are described, and recommendations from the model testing policy of the International Association of Chiefs of Police are provided. Supporting documents are contained in the appendixes.

Drug addiction and the illegal drug trade are recognized today as major international problems. Efforts to control trafficking and coordinate enforcement policy have until now met with only limited success. Although world opinion, led by the United States, has generally favored hard-line measures, some countries, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, strenuously resist them, while others, primarily poor Asian and South American countries, remain economically dependent on the demand for illicit drugs. Drugs, Law, and the State focuses on the conflicting cultural values and historical traditions that continue to thwart combined attempts among nations to impeded the flow of drugs. This volume is built around the idea that drug control policy largely reflects the society in which it is found. The authors analyze contrasting national policies through theories that emphasize the role of ideology, legitimacy, and history. This cultural orientation opens up new areas of research not often addressed by conventional criminology. Instead of asking why some people use illegal drugs while others do not, several chapters ask why and in what societies drug use is defined as a crime. Drugs, Law, and the State is composed of three sections. The first, “Drug Control Policy and the State,” uses the examples of Denmark, Spain, and Finland to analyze drug control policy in relation to the state as a defined interest group. Part Two, “The Political Economy of Drugs,” considers the political-economic nexus of the drug trade primarily in Asia, and surveys the role of organized crime from an international perspective. The concluding section, “Future Directions,” examines the current status of drug control policy in the United States and provides a set of alternative proposals in the direction of decriminalization. Drugs, Law, and the State offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem. It will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.

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