Encyclopedia of Drug Policy

摘要

The bumper crop of encyclopedias devoted to drugs, drug abuse, and drug policy published during the early 1990s has finally been brought up to date by the 2011 Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. With a time frame that focuses primarily on twentieth and twenty-first century USA and referencing events through 2010, this encyclopedia's entries have been laid out in six general categories: Drugs, Laws and policies, Organizations and individuals, Control strategies and their underlying theories, Drugs in select countries, and Drugs and other social problems. While other sources may be more comprehensive with regard to individual drugs (Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs (Miller, 2002) (RR 2003/401)) or particular time periods and level of international coverage (The War on Drugs: An International Encyclopedia (Chepesuik, 1999)), none are really at the broad, explicitly sociological level of the Encyclopedia of Drug Policy.