Books

Charles P. Cozic and Karin Swisher, eds., Chemical Dependency: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1991. This anthology presents six controversial issues regarding drug dependency in a pro-con format. Many of the viewpoints presented are written by nationally recognized experts in the field of drug addiction.

Drug Abuse: Research Shows Treatment Is Effective, but Benefits May Be Overstated. Washington DC: Government Accounting Office, April 27, 1998.

Claire Hargreaves, Snowfields: The War on Cocaine in the Andes.

New York: Holmes & Meier, 1992. One of the best accounts of the cocaine wars waged in the Andes. It includes first-person narratives by the peasants who grow the coca leaves and the accounts of the bosses of the cocaine cartels who control the processing and exporting. Hargreaves also describes the attempts on the part of the federal DEA to stop the exporting of cocaine and the Bolivian government officials who largely allow the...