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Your search for: war AND on AND drugs


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Research Topics on: war on drugs

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Books on: war on drugs

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Encyclopedia Articles on: war on drugs

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  • Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...often referred to as the drug "czar," is responsible for coordinating national drug control policy. Bibliography See H. Abadinsky, Drug Abuse (1989); H. T. Milhorn...Baum, Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure...
     
  • Drugs
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and particularly since World War II, many important new drugs...antianxiety drugs and antidepressant drugs ; cortisone and synthetic corticosteroid drugs used in treating inflammatory...antidotes for poisons; and various drugs that act as stimulants or depressants...psychopharmacology ; hallucinogenic drug ). See also drug resistance...
     
  • Marijuana
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...cultivated during World War II, when Asian sources...Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) sought to portray marijuana...considered a "gateway" drug by some authorities...and LSD as a Schedule I drug, i.e., having the...southern borders. The "war on drugs" thus brought with it...Beginning in 1982 the Drug Enforcement Administration...
     
  • Tropical Medicine
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...efficient synthetic antimalarial drugs. DDT, introduced in World War II to eradicate the malaria...Fansidar, the most widely used drugs for the protection of travelers in the tropics, has made both drugs virtually useless in most of...and South America. A new drug, mefloquine, is effective...
     
  • Submarine
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...submarine. In the U.S. Civil War the Confederates used several...The Submarine in the World Wars In 1912, E-boats, the first...Development continued, and in World War I submarines were for the first...did during the Persian Gulf War . In the 1990s South Anerican drug cartels began using diesel...submarinelike vessels to smuggle illegal drugs. Now built largely of fiberglass...
     

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