Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War

by Matthew R. Pembleton

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343167
• ISBN13: 9781625343161
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher