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addiction and organized crime
addiction and political control
addiction crisis in the U.S.
addiction prevention policies
addiction treatment vs. drug control
American drug policies
Author_Matthew R. Pembleton
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domestic drug crises
drug control
Drug control after World War II
drug control agencies USA
drug control as foreign policy
drug control during World War II
drug control in postwar America
drug control strategies
drug enforcement history
drug enforcement policy evolution
drug policy in the 1940s
drug supply and demand
drug war origins
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Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Federal Bureau of Narcotics history
global drug control
global drug trade and U.S. intervention
global narcotics operations
international drug control
international drug war history
narcotics control U.S. history
post-WWII drug policy
the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in history
U.S. addiction control agencies
U.S. addiction policy
U.S. and the global drug supply
U.S. drug control policy
U.S. drug policies post-WWII
U.S. drug policy 1930s
U.S. foreign policy and drug control
U.S. narcotics agencies
War on Drugs and World War II
War on Drugs history
War on Drugs legacy
War on Drugs origins
War on Drugs origins in the 1940s
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- ISBN 9781625343161
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 trans-national 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.
U.S. policymakers had long viewed addiction and organized crime as profound domestic and trans-national 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.
Matthew R. Pembleton is an author and historian based outside of Washington, DC.
