Containing Addiction The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics And The Origins Of Americas Global Drug War Matthew R Pembleton by Matthew R. Pembleton 9781625343154, 9781625343161, 1625343159, 1625343167 instant download after payment.

The
story of America’s “War on Drugs” usually begins with Richard Nixon or
Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that
its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics—the country’s first drug control agency,
established in 1930—began to depict drug control as a paramilitary
conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American
shores. U.S. policymakers had long viewed addiction and organized crime
as profound domestic and trans-national threats. Yet World War II
presented new opportunities to implement drug control on a global scale.
Skeptical of public health efforts to address demand, the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics believed that reducing the global supply of drugs
was the only way to contain the spread of addiction. In effect, America
applied a foreign policy solution to a domestic social crisis,
demonstrating how consistently policymakers have assumed that security
at home can only be achieved through hegemony abroad. The result is a
drug war that persists into the present day.