The Fix

by Massing, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780520223356
• ISBN10: 0520223357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Massing confronts the failure of the "war on drugs" and documents the much greater potential for reclaiming drug addicts that can be had by treatment and support rather than criminalization, and at a lower cost than building ever more prisons and militarizing drug source countries in Latin America.

Author Biography

Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	1	(8)
Introduction: The Problem	9	(8)
Part One: THE STREET, 1992
The Street Worker	17	(12)
Hard Core	29	(18)
Priorities	47	(8)
The Police	55	(10)
Buyers and Sellers	65	(8)
Explosion	73	(12)
Part Two: WASHINGTON
Apprenticeship	85	(12)
To the White House	97	(16)
The Great Experiment	113	(19)
The Retreat	132	(11)
The Counterrevolution	143	(12)
Dismantlement	155	(11)
Storm Warnings	166	(11)
The Deluge	177	(14)
The Philosopher-Czar	191	(17)
An Officer and a General	208	(21)
Part Three: THE STREET, 1993-1997
Rise and Fall	229	(17)
The Mayor	246	(12)
Redemption	258	(13)
CONCLUSION
A Way Out	271	(6)
Notes	277	(42)
Select Bibliography	319	(3)
Acknowledgments	322	(1)
Index	323