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Intro -- DRUG POLICIES, ADDICTION AND ERADICATION -- DRUG POLICIES, ADDICTION AND ERADICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY -- Abstract -- Introduction -- U.S. National Drug Control Strategy -- Agency Roles -- International Drug Control Tools -- Multilateral Cooperation -- Foreign Assistance Sanctions -- "Drug Majors" and the Certificate Process -- Methamphetamine Precursor Chemicals -- Crop Eradiction -- Alternative Development -- Interdiction -- Anti-Money Laundering Efforts -- Extradition -- Institutional Capacity Building -- Legislative Issues for the 111th Congress -- Merida Initiative -- Plan Columbia and the Andean Counterdrug Program -- Afghanistan Counterdrug Programs -- Alternative Policy Approaches -- Rebalance Current Drug Policy Tools -- Emphasize "Hard Side" of Counternarcotics Policy -- Emphasize "Soft Side" of Counternarcotics Policy -- Emphasize Drug Demand Reduction -- Reevaluate Prohibitionist Drug Regime -- Legalize Illegal Drugs -- Decriminalize Illegal Drugs -- Allow Government-Supervised Drug Use for Addicts -- Expand International Criminal Court Jurisdiction -- References -- Chapter 2 U.S. ASSISTANCE HAS HELPED MEXICAN COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS, BUT THE FLOW OF ILLICIT DRUGS INTO THE UNITED STATES REMAINS HIGH -- Summary -- Background -- Illicit Drug Production and Trafficking by Mexican Drug Organizations Have Continued Virtually Unabated -- Corruption Persists within the Mexican Government -- Mexican DTOs Control Drug Trafficking in Mexico and Have Extended Their Reach into the United States -- U.S. Assistance Helped Mexico Improve Its Counternarcotics Efforts, but Coordination Can Be Improved -- Extraditions of Mexican Drug Traffickers Have Increased -- Efforts to Counter Money Laundering Are Progressing

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Brief History of the War on Drugs -- Objectives of This Book -- Case Selection and Approach -- Book Overview -- Chapter 2: The Drug War in Colombia -- The Miami-Colombia Connection -- The Medellín and Cali Cartels -- Plan Colombia and Beyond: Combating Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime -- Coca, Cocaine, and Organized Crime -- Security Improves but Coca Cultivation and Drug Trafficking Continue -- Criminal Bands, Drug Trafficking, and Human Rights Abuses -- The Santos Administration: Peace, Demobilization, and Drug Trafficking -- The Election of Duque and the Return to the War on Drugs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Mexico -- The History of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime -- The PRI, Organized Crime, and the Transition -- Enrique Peña Nieto: Crime, Violence, and Corruption -- The AMLO Administration, Organized Crime, and Violence -- Opium Production and Organized Crime in Guerrero -- The Coronavirus and Organized Crime -- Combating Corruption and Impunity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Addiction, Fentanyl, and the Border -- OxyContin, Marketing, and Addiction -- Stories of Addiction -- The Fentanyl Fury: The Case of Philadelphia -- The Nation's First Safe Injection Site in Philadelphia -- The U.S. Southern Border and Drug Flows: The Supply of Fentanyl -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Prisons and the Consequences of Tough on Crime Policies at Home and Abroad -- Tough on Crime Policies and the U.S. Prison Explosion -- Race, Women, Drugs, and Prisons -- The Exorbitant Cost of the Prison System and the Revolving Door -- Prosecutorial Discretion and Sentencing -- Prisons in the Americas, the Drug War, and Tough on Crime Policies Abroad -- Women, Drug Crimes, and Prisons in the Americas.