Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166) and index.

Drug abuse/ Alan I. Leshner -- Drug abuse / Sally L. Satel -- Marijuana is a gateway drug / Joseph A. Califano Jr. -- Marijuana use does not lead to harder drugs / Institute of Medicine -- The media may encourage drug abuse / Barry R. McCaffrey -- The media's role in encouraging drug abuse is exaggerated / Jacob Sullum -- Adolescents and illicit drug use / Ann B. Bruner, Marc Fishman -- Club drugs are harming more youths / Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse -- Heroin use has increased / Evelyn Nieves -- Hallucinogens are harmful / Kathiann M. Kowalski -- Playing with painkillers / Claudia Kalb ... [et al.] -- Drug abuse among youths has not increased / Civic Research Institute -- There is no adolescent heroin crisis / Mike Males -- There is no prescription drug abuse crisis / Tom Shales -- Drug addiction treatment is effective / Alan I. Leshner -- Methadone treatment is an effective treatment for heroin addiction / James Cooper -- Antidrug media campaigns reduce drug abuse / Lloyd D. Johnston -- Needle-exchange programs reduce the harms of intravenous drug use / Jon Fuller -- The effectiveness of drug treatment has not been proven / Fred Reed -- The DARE program has not been effective / Ryan H. Sager -- Antidrug media campaigns should be reevaluated / S. Shyam Sundar -- Needle-exchange programs do not reduce the harms of intravenous drug use / James L. Curtis -- Drug use should be legalized / Gary E. Johnson -- Marijuana should be legalized / R. Keith Stroup -- Drug use should be an individual choice / Thomas Szasz -- Legalizing drugs would not cause an increase in drug use / Dan Gardner -- Harm reduction reduces the risks of drug use / Herbert P. Barnard -- Drug use should not be legalized / Donnie Marshall -- Marijuana should not be legalized / Bob Barr -- Harm reduction does not reduce the risks of drug use / Barry R. McCaffrey -- The War on Drugs must be continued / Gustavo Gonzales-Baez.

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