Article: Looking For A Fix

HEP-CATS, NARCS, AND PIPE DREAMS

A History of America's

Romance with Illegal Drugs

By Jill Jonnes

Scribner. 510 pp. $30

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure

By Dan Baum

Little, Brown. 416 pp. $24.95

FOR MORE THAN 100 years Americans have had an up-and-down love affair with dangerous drugs. The cycle begins with infatuation, graduates to obsession and invariably culminates in disaster. Each time it happens, the nation stumbles, at first failing to recognize the dangers, then minimizing them, then belatedly launching a scattershot "war on drugs" that often seems as debilitating as the scourge itself.

The failure of the United States ...

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