Children of the drug war : perspectives on the impact of drug policies on young people / / Damon Barrett, editor.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Barrett, Damon.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 241 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Frontlines: production and trade -- Real life on the frontlines of Colombia's drug war / Jess Hunter-Bowman -- Children : forgotten victims in Mexico's drug war / Aram Barra & Daniel Joloy -- In the shadows of the insurgency in Afghanistan : child bartering, opium debt, and the war on drugs / Christopher Kuonqui & Atal Ahmadzai -- After the war on drugs : how legal regulation of production and trade would better protect children / Steve Rolles -- Targets : race, class, and law enforcement -- Getting the message : hip hop reports on the drug war / Deborah Peterson Small -- Under cover of privilege : college drug dealing in the United States / A. Rafik Mohamed & Erik Fritsvold -- Young soldiers in Brazil's drug war / Michelle Gueraldi -- Home front : the impact on families -- Dancing with despair : a mother's perspective / Gretchen Burns Bergman -- Mothers and children of the drug war : a view from a women's prison in Quito, Ecuador / Jennifer Fleetwood & Andreina Torres -- Between Diego and Mario : children of the drug war in Indonesia / Asmin Fransiska, Ricky Gunawan & Ajeng Larasati -- "Ants facing an elephant" : mothers' grief, loss, and work for change following the placement of children in the care of child protection services / Kathleen Kenny & Amy Druker -- Justification : children, drug use, and dependence -- Youth drug use research and the missing pieces in the puzzle : how can researchers support the next generation of harm reduction approaches? / Catherine Cook & Adam Fletcher -- Taking drugs together : early adult transitions and the limits of harm reduction in England and Wales / Michael Shiner -- Drug testing in schools : a case study in doing more harm than good / Adam Fletcher -- Dependence on drugs and alcohol for survival : a case study on young people and street children in Badagry, a border town in Nigeria / Femi Aina Fasinu -- "I've been waiting for this my whole life" : life transitions and heroin use / Jovana Arsenijevic & Andjelka Nikolic -- Why should children suffer? : palliative care and pain management for children / Joan Marston.