A collective denial of reality has gripped America throughout the 20th
century and led to a drugs policy that does more harm than good. That is the
basis of Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe and Peter Andreas鈥檚 lucid
analysis Drug War Politics (University of California Press,
拢13.95/$17.95, ISBN 0 520 20598 7). The 鈥淲ar on Drugs鈥� consumes
$8 billion a year, but fails. The authors argue for a public health model
in which drugs users are seen as sick and in need of help, rather than
criminals. How to achieve this shift is less clear.
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