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<p> This comprehensive and well-documented cross-comparative analysis of drug policy focuses on the US, Sweden, and Italy. The author looks at how differing social welfare policies in each nation affects the dynamics of drug use, trafficking, and control measures... The coverage of social welfare policies in each of the three nations discussed is so detailed that it is easy to forget that this is a book about drugs... It all comes together, however, in an excellent conclusion... Sweden and Italy prohibit the use and sales of drugs as much as does the US, but they have relied more on treatment as the preferable method of rehabilitation, with more positive results. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty. <p> -- B. J. Goetz, Choice

<p> This comprehensive and well-documented cross-comparative analysis of drug policy focuses on the US, Sweden, and Italy. The author looks at how differing social welfare policies in each nation affects the dynamics of drug use, trafficking, and control measures . . . The coverage of social welfare policies in each of the three nations discussed is so detailed that it is easy to forget that this is a book about drugs . . . It all comes together, however, in an excellent conclusion . . . Sweden and Italy prohibit the use and sales of drugs as much as does the US, but they have relied more on treatment as the preferable method of rehabilitation, with more positive results. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty. <p> --B. J. Goetz, Choice

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Sandro Segre is a professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy.

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