Children of the Drug War : Perspectives on the Impact of Drug Policies on Young People

Book Description: A unique collection of original essays that investigates the impacts of the war on drugs on children and young people. With contributions from around the world and utilizing a wide range of styles and approaches including ethnographic studies, personal accounts and interviews, the book asks three fundamental questions: What have been the costs to children of the war on drugs? Is the protection of children from drugs a solid justification for current policies? What kinds of public fears and preconceptions exist in relation to drugs and the drug trade? 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.