Title Lies, damned lies, and drug war statistics : a critical analysis of claims made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy / Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen.

Publication Info.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

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Edition	Second edition.
Description	1 online resource (xvii, 310 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- About America's drug war -- Methodology -- Claims about reducing drug use -- Claims about disrupting drug markets and claims about costs of drug abuse -- A fair assessment of America's drug war -- Conclusions and policy recommendations.
Summary	"Revised and updated edition that analyses how the Office of National Drug Control Policy employs statistics to misleadingly claim the War on Drugs is a success"--Provided by publisher.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
	United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy. (OCoLC)fst00648079
	Drug control -- United States.
	Drug control -- United States -- Statistics.
	Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States.
	Drug abuse -- United States -- Statistics.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
	Drug abuse. (OCoLC)fst00898480
	Drug abuse -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00898497
	Drug control. (OCoLC)fst01032891
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Statistics. (OCoLC)fst01423727
Added Author	Scherlen, Renee G., 1962-
Other Form:	Print version: Robinson, Matthew B. Lies, damned lies, and drug war statistics. Second edition 9781438448374 (DLC) 2012048345 (OCoLC)822028654
ISBN	9781461954613 (electronic bk.)
	1461954614 (electronic bk.)
	9781438448398 (electronic bk.)
	1438448392 (electronic bk.)

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