TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pembleton,Matthew R.
TI  - Containing addiction:: the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the origins of America's global drug war 
SN  - 9781613765517
AV  - HV5825 .C668 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Bureau of Narcotics
KW  - History
KW  - Drug control
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction. Toiling in the vineyards --; The discourse of the dope menace --; The world's greatest living authority on dope --; On the street and behind enemy lines --; A red-blooded American boy and true-crime action hero --; Constructing a kingpin --; The drug war goes abroad --; The global drug war --; The wheel turns --; Conclusion. Waging drug wars; 2; b
N2  - The story of America's "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics - the country's first drug control agency, established in 1930 - began to depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores. U.S. policymakers had long viewed addiction and organized crime as profound domestic and transnational threats. Yet World War II presented new opportunities to implement drug control on a global scale. Skeptical of public health efforts to address demand, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics believed that reducing the global supply of drugs was the only way to contain the spread of addiction. In effect, America applied a foreign policy solution to a domestic social crisis, demonstrating how consistently policymakers have assumed that security at home can only be achieved through hegemony abroad. The result is a drug war that persists into the present day. --
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