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By David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer. 312 pp., illustrated, with CD-ROM. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2002. $40. ISBN 0-300-09036-6.

Musto and Korsmeyer have written a valuable, albeit somewhat problematic, account of how U.S. policymakers responded as an unprecedented flood of drug abuse inundated the country. The authors outline well the essential themes that permeated debates over how to react to the massive surge in drug use. The policy clashes detailed in the book turned on fundamental questions of value that became polarized when broached in a political context. Should society accept a certain level of drug abuse (thereby implying a tolerance for illicit activity) or, alternatively, should it espouse the elimination of illicit-drug use altogether (even if complete realization . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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