The fix

by Brian Freemantle

Book Overview

Brian Freemantle, who went undercover risking his life, brings back the inside story on the multinational business that costs the U.S. $25 billion a year and untold misery and death--Drug Trade. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718124618
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: TOR
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

The laws against drugs are shown to be hypocrytical.

The world of international drug smuggling, combat methods and results are amply recorded in The Fix... Hypocracy and stubborn objectives surface as we learn more and more about the governments on both sides of the Atlantic and thier apparent struggle against the drug barons. We are informed that basically Britains heroin problem has been self inflicted, stemming from one doctors over zealousness in prescribing then dreaded 'H' during the 60's. Coincidently this was round about the same time that cannabis treatment in Britain was outlawed. On the American's struggle against drugs, the FBI's role in bringing down black America through the introduction of drugs to the ghetto's is questioned. Expenditure by the DEA is recorded and a decent argument for the legalisation or decriminalisation of certain drugs can be founded, when the estiomated costs of the drug war are compared to the turnover of the trade in illegal drugs in America. The book itself, I imagine, is an embarrassment to the hardline approach demonstrated by the governing powers and thier various branches which are concerned with drug control. If you ever want to undermine the case for keeping all drugs illegal then this book shall give you the facts, figures and motivation to do so. What gives the powers that be the right to prosecute, when the majority of cases involve substances which they themselves have introduced?