1. Addiction and Control
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
2. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
3. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
4. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
   Resource Type: Article
   A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
5. Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
   Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
6. Drug War Winners and Losers
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
7. Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
   Against The Current vol. 153
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   Across the country corrections department officials and captains of the incarceration industry are in crisis. Though the nation’s over bloated prison system is far from breaking, the halcyon days of proliferating maximum security units and juvenile detention centers appear nearly at an end. Prisons are bursting at the seams and states, reaping the backlash of years of neoliberal tax cuts, have no money to “fix” the problem with another round of construction.
8. Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
9. HealthSources.ca
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2017
   A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
10. Mexico at War
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
11. The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
    The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
12. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
13. The New Jim Crow 
    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass race-based incarceration as a system of social control.
14. Peaceful Measures
    Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
15. Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
16. Prison Nation 
    The Warehousing of America's Poor
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system.
17. Rejected for jury duty
    Resource Type: Article
    Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
18. Shadow boxing in the drug ring
    Resource Type: Article
    The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
19. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
20. Smoke and Mirrors
    The Canadian Tobacco War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Describes Canada's stance and battle against tobacco. Cunningham explains the health movement and tactics to regulate the tobacco industry.
21. TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The cost of bribing US border and airport security personnel is chump change in the narco-trafficking business.
22. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.

Experts on Drogues/Droit et Politique in the Sources Directory

1. International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)