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2) Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it: a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This probing book examines the implications for the quality and availability of vital medicines for consumers"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Jesse Venturas Marijuana Manifesto calls for an end to the War on Drugs. Just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean it goes away, it just means that criminals run it. Legalizing marijuana will serve to rejuvenate our pathetic economy, and just might make people a little happier. Venturas book will show us all how we can take our country back,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
DEBOLS!LLO
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los Sęor del Narco is a stark chronicle about the alarming complicities of high political, police, military and business circles with organized crime.
Los sęores del narco es una descarnada cr̤nica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos c̕rculos pol̕ticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A "drug-free America" seems to be a fantasyland that most people don't want to inhabit. High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies and social norms. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the...
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Language
English
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An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo.
13) The infiltrator
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
14) The cobra
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
Disgusted by the horrors of illegal drug trafficking, the president declares the drug traders and their cartels terrorists, and gives ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux, known as the Cobra from his operations days, free rein to take them on.
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist
2024 Reading Challenge February Bonus Category: Nonfiction by a Black Author
2024 Reading Challenge February Bonus Category: Nonfiction by a Black Author
Description
"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today-a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When...
16) A man apart
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A DEA agent is on a deadly vendetta to take down the boss of the powerful cartel that killed his wife. He will not rest until the drug boss is dead or behind bars.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the high-stakes world of drug dealing and drug enforcement, featuring interviews with top-ranking government officials and such celebrities as Woody Harrelson, Susan Sarandon, The Wire creator David Simon, and rappers Eminem, 50 Cent, and Rick Ross.
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