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Drug Policy and the Public Good
Babor, et al.

Drug Policy and the Public Good is collaboratively written by an international group of career scientists to provide an analytical basis on which to build relevant global drug policies, and to inform policy makers who have direct responsibility for public health and social welfare.

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Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine
Mick Farren

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces the criminal and cultural use of amphetamine and its growing use through each new and destructive cycle. Formatted in the shape of an amphetamine capsule, this book presents award-winning author Mick Farren’s examination of the curious history of America's secret addiction to speed, both in its political and cultural manifestations.

 

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The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed
Joseph Collum

In a fast-paced true story that reads like a novel, The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed is a "passionate and much-needed account of the struggle to put an end to police profiling on the New Jersey Turnpike," according to Professor Frank Askin, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Rutgers Law School/Newark. 

 

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