Alcoholism

PublicAffairs, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 270 pages; 6 x 9.25 inches. In High Society, Joseph Califano points out that a child is virtually certain never to reach twenty-one years of age without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol--and he chronicles the fearful cost in personal pain and public dollars of our nation's failure to act on this truth. Califano shows how substance abuse is the culprit in violent and property crime, soaring Medicare and Medicaid costs, family breakup, domestic violence, the spread of AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, and low productivity. He takes on alcohol and tobacco interests that buy political protection with campaign contributions and seed a culture of substance abuse among our nation's children and teens. He explains the importance of parent power, proposes revolutionary changes in prevention, treatment, and criminal justice, and calls upon every individual and institution to confront this plague that has maimed and killed more Americans than all our wars, natural catastrophes, and traffic accidents combined. Califano founded The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, now recognized as the nation's top think/action tank on substance abuse involving tobacco, alcohol and illegal, prescription and performance enhancing drugs. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Cambridge University Press, 2007. Trade paperback. First edition As New in publisher's shrink wrap. 320 pages; 6 x 9 inches. Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Common Sense for Drug Policy, 2007. Trade paperback. Sixth Edition. As New. 278 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Laid in is a DVD with interviews with members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a police group against the War on Drugs. Drug War Facts provides reliable information with applicable citations on important public health and criminal justice issues. Most charts, facts and figures are from government sources, government sponsored sources, peer reviewed journals, and occasionally newspapers. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Chronicle Books, 1993. Stiff Wraps with French folds. First edition. Very Good with light shelf wear and light edge wear and sunned spine. 141 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w plates; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Out of Print. No remainder mark. Schatz once said he thought this was his best work; it is. Beautifully printed too. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Chronicle Books, 1993. Stiff Wraps with French folds. First edition. Near Fine with a bump to one corner. 141 pages; profusely illustrated with b&w plates; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. SIGNED BY SCHATZ and inscribed. Out of Print. No remainder mark. Portraits of homeless people opposite autobiographical narratives. Schatz once said he thought this was his best work; it is. Beautifully printed. FREE SHIPPING, insurance and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Da Capo Press, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. AS NEW. 240 pages; 8 pages of b&w photos; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. Whitney's brother, a Vietnam veteran, died fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered from the trauma of war and the stress of returning to live in a country that didn't care about his pain. The story of what happened to WhitneyÕs brother has a relevance to current national concerns. Soldiers Once puts a very human face on veterans' policies. It is both an investigation into her brother's loss and a meditation on the lost dreams of our military brotherhood. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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