Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World

by Paul B. Stares

Book Overview

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The market for illicit drugs is expanding inexorably around the world. More kinds of drugs are becoming more available in more places than ever before. But the drug trade is not only growing, it is changing in character. It has ceased to be a marginal area of criminal activity and has now become a major global enterprise controlled by formidable interests that threaten much more than the health of drug users. Moreover, the immense wealth that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815781415
• ISBN13: 9780815781417
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"