Policy Options: The "War" at Home

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Moderator
Mr. Bradford Bernstein
Drugs and National Security Colloquium

Interlocutor

U.S. Drug Policy and the Congress: New Developments and Directions
Mr. Raphael Perl

Panelists

The Neurobiological Reasons Why We Use Drugs"-Slide Presentation
Dr. Linda Porrino
The Chief of the Unit on Brain Imaging at the National Institute on Neurological and Disorders and Stroke, she has investigated the behavioral and pharmacological aspects of drug abuse and used brain-imaging methods to identify the areas in the brain where drugs such as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines have their effects.

Prohibition, Regulation and Enforcement
Dr. Mark Kleiman
A lecturer in public policy and a Research Fellow in Criminal Justice at the Harvard University School of Government, he is the former director of the Office of Policy and Management Analysis of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. His current research interests include policies for controlling the AIDS epidemic, particularly roles that criminal justice agencies might play, and retail heroin law enforcement as a technique for the control of property and violent crime.

Policy Options & Alternatives: Is Legalization Desirable?
Dr. Ethan Nadelmann
A criminologist and political scientist at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, he is a leading advocate of the legalization of illicit narcotics, a position he recently argued in his controversial article U.S. Drug Policy - A Bad Export (Foreign Policy, Spring 1988).

The Drug war and Democracy At Home: the Impact of Supply Reduction Strategies on Constitutional Democracy
Dr. Kenneth Sharpe
A professor of political science, Swarthmore College, he is the author of Confronting Revolution: Security Through Diplomacy in Central America and of The Real Cause of Irangate (Foreign Policy, Winter 1988). He is currently researching the U.S foreign relations dilemmas that occur when U. S international drug policy confronts U.S foreign policy.

The New Drug Use Findings-What Do they argue?
Dr. Charles R. Schuster
The Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), he was the former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and the Director of the Drug Abuse Center, the University of Chicago.

Drugs: A Winnable War
Mr. Robert Stutman
The Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, he also has served as the Special Agent in Charge of Boston and the Director of the Office of Congressional Affairs for the DEA. His career in drug enforcement has taken him to seventy countries in his twenty-two years of service. His office was recently responsible for the drug raid which seized $20 million in cash, a seizure which the New York Times has called the largest to date.

Social Class: Drug Use & Its Influence on Treatment and Prevention Planning
Dr. Norman Zinberg
A clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, he is the author of Drug, Set and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use and Control Over Intoxicant Use: Pharmacological, Psychological, and Social Considerations.