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Signed and Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers, vii + 243 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Millie is just one in a long line of wartime victims. She isn't collateral damage from a terrorist strike or a public figure positioned in a sniper's crosshairs. Millie's own country has waged war on her and every other citizen like her. Millie's is a tale of America's longest war -- the war on drugs. Dr. Nelson Goodman's novel has no hidden agenda. Rather, its agenda bursts from the book's preface in clear and powerful language; and whether readers agree or disagree, they must read on. Millie is a promising teenager with a troubled home life. She finds solace in alcohol, which leads to marijuana, and ultimately heroin. As a result of her drug dependency, she discovers she is a criminial, who embarks on a legal journey that leads her all the way to the Supreme Court. Through Millie's dramatic story, Goodman illustrates the drug war's inconsistencies, fallacies, and the injustices it brings upon the American people. Dr. Goodman served as chairman of the Maryland state medical society's Committee on Drugs providing education on drug addiction and treatment that he felt was missing in his own training. This passion, combined with his life-long determination to end America's war on drugs, fuels every page of his novel. American Culture, War on Drugs, Narcotics, Americana, U.S.-iana, United States History, Pscychology, Medicine, Law Studies. qslic. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good + Jacket. First UK Edition. Vii, 536 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Uk Printing (1964). The Book Brings Together For The First Time An Extensive Collection Of Essays By Both Philosophers And Mathematicians On The Nature Of Mathematics; Philosophical Questions Are Discussed By Leaders In Each Field. The Selections Include The First English Translations Of Several Important Works, As Well As New Translations Of Others, And Several Articles Have Been Extensively Revised By Their Authors For This Anthology. Book Near Fine, Slight Usage. Dj Priced 63S. Net. With Slight Rubbing.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Imagine there were no drug dealers on our city streets! There were no cartels perpetrating atrocities on our nation's borders. There were no hapless victims of the drug war committing crimes or prostituting themselves to get their next fix! Our prisons were emptied of small time drug dealers and their victims, the drug dependent, the mentally ill, the casual pleasure seeker! The Taliban could no longer finance their bombs and guns with money from Afghan heroin! Our courts were free to provide timely justice for non-drug related crime! The drug dependent among us receiving treatment, rehabilitation, even maintenance instead of incarceration! Is this just a pipe dream or is it the reality we have failed to properly pursue? Must there be an endless, futile war on people who seek drugs for pleasure, to relieve symptoms of depression or other mental illness, or because they became addicted as children or adolescents driven by social or other pressures? Is the drug war to remain an open, never to be healed wound of American society, a blight to which we have habituated ourselves, a racist threat to black America, a windfall for the purveyors of prisons, alcohol, illicit substances, and jurisprudence? Dr. Goodman, through his protagonist, Millie, a promising youngster who becomes addicted to heroin with relatively little disruption in her life and career, leads us through the devastating consequences of the drug war to the highest court in the land to question its constitutionality. 1 This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…