Description: "Global Habit, by Paul B. Stares, says something fresh.... He brings an overdue perspective in focusing on the devastation that illegal drugs are wreaking beyond the United States....Stares possesses a dispassionate intelligence, and he lays out all sides of a complex argument".

"This book is very useful and thought-provoking. It is a comprehensive overview of the politics of drugs from a policy-oriented point of view and is especially commendable in combining discussions of heroin and cocaine .... This book remains an extremely useful contribution to the debate on one of the major issues on the political agenda in the West, and deserves to be read widely by those interested in the subject".

" Stares presents an excellent overview of both the challenge and the rise and development of the global drug trade, and its market dynamics and operations. He then offers an agenda containing pragmatic goals and programs for responding to the problem in ways that go far beyond the simplistic legalization/prohibitionist debate. Most important, he does this in a mere 122 pages of clear, concise text".

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