PART I. THE DRUG/CRIME EPIDEMIC
Introduction to the Public Health Perspective....................................................... 1
The Drug Use Epidemic.........................................................................................2
Salient Features of the Drug/Crime Epidemic.......................................................7
The Drug/Crime Subsidy.....................................................................................12
Internal Parts and Processes of the Drug/Crime Epidemic.....................................15
Profit as Cost of Production..................................................................................16
Super-Costs of the Drug Supply Industry..............................................................16
The Drug Culture as Vehicle of Demand Creation................................................18
Mutual Stimulation of Supply and Demand.........................................................19
Pseudoscience Props of Prohibition.......................................................................20
High Prices as Demand Constraints.....................................................................22
The Demonization of Addicts and Addiction........................................................24
The Criminalization of Drug Use.........................................................................25
Harm Reduction and the Discovery of Loop De-energizers....................................26
Harm Reduction and Market Interposition...........................................................29
The Inevitability of Misery and Drug Use............................................................30
PART II: INTERPOSITION
STRATEGY FOR DRUG/CRIME CONTROL........................................................33
THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS............................................................34
Public Purpose & Goals of Interposition....................................................35
Essential Properties of Remedies.............................................................36
Strategic Tools of Interposition................................................................39
Public Preemption of the Drug Supply Function.............................40
Licensed Drug Use.......................................................................41
Price/Quality Competition.........................................................41
Two-tiered Price Policy...............................................................42
Treatment...................................................................................42
Drug User Education and Counseling.............................................45
Anti-Drug Education...................................................................46
Negative Advertising.................................................................46
The Sum of the Parts...............................................................................46
Planning the Implementation of Interposition..........................................49
Interposition Program Planning................................................................50
Planning of Evaluation............................................................................55
THE POLITICS OF INTERPOSITION.................................................................56
Introduction............................................................................................56
The Standard Model...............................................................................56
The Conversion Hypothesis....................................................................57
Interposition and Competing Drug Policy Options....................................59
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS........................................................................66
PART III: THE AGENCY FOR DRUG MARKET INTERPOSITION
Organization Form and Locus...............................................................................69
Internal Governance of ADMI..............................................................................73
Council for Interposition Planning........................................................................74
Motivation and Organization Theory..................................................................75
APPENDIX
REFERENCES
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