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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- TRANSACTION INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I FAMILY STORIES AND THE FAMILY -- CHAPTER 1 FAMILY GROUND RULES -- CHAPTER 2 FAMILY DEFINITIONS -- CHAPTER 3 FAMILY MONUMENTS -- CHAPTER 4 UNDERGROUND RULES -- CHAPTER 5 FAMILY MYTHS -- PART II FAMILY STORIES AND THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 6 THE PECKING ORDER AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT -- CHAPTER 7 OF MONEY, SELF-WORTH, AND LOST FORTUNES -- PART III FAMILY STORIES AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- CHAPTER 8 LEGACIES -- CHAPTER 9 FAIRY GODMOTHERS AND PATRON SAINTS -- CHAPTER 10 IN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM -- NOTES

The U.S. has been waging a War on Drugs for the last forty years. But in the mid-2010s, a series of reforms have rejected this militant approach. How did these policies manage to break through a gridlocked Congress? What is the nature of these reforms, and what are their political implications? Using critical discourse analysis, I demonstrate that a new policy framework of "addiction recovery" defines the political crises of the opioid epidemic, the failure of the War on Drugs, and mass incarceration in terms of disease, attributing Drug War injustices to prejudice against "addiction," rather than a constellation of institutional racism, sexism, nativism, and economic exploitation enacted through drug policy. I conclude that characterizing recent reforms as a decisive break with the War on Drugs obscures the ways in which drug policy continues to perpetuate injustice by offering a personal, rather than political, solution in the "hope" of recovery.

Prepared for: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Advanced Systems and Concepts Office Comparative Strategic Cultures Curriculum Contract No: DTRA01-03-D-0017, Technical Instruction 18-06-02 This report represents the views of its author, not necessarily those of SAIC, its sponsors, or any United States Government Agency

The U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue brought together Chinese and U.S. strategic experts in their personal capacities to discuss the role of nuclear weapons in Sino-American relations with the aim of minimizing mutual misunderstanding and identifying practical steps for bilateral cooperation. The conference was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in collaboration with Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and with support from the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of Defense Threat Reduc tion Agency, U.S. Department of Defense. The American participants were primarily academics, although several had experience in international security issues while working for the U.S. government. The Chinese participants were a mix of academics, think tank analysts, and military officers. (Please see the complete list of participants at the end of this report.) The conference was held under the explicit understanding that all participants were speaking unofficially, as observers of their government's policy, not representatives of it.