Zanoza presents a personal account of drug addiction. Pick another from this directory and compare/contrast it to the one in your textbook. What is the value of such specific narratives as opposed to more general descriptions? What shortcomings might specific narratives have as evidence in an argument about addiction?

Interested in doing a paper about the war on drugs, but having trouble narrowing your focus? Take a look at this directory from Google.com on the subject, and you'll get plenty of help zeroing in on a good topic.

How about an opposing viewpoint? This is the homepage of the SSDP, or Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Now that you've sorted through the issues, consider these questions: What's your view about legalizing drugs? If you're in favor, which ones would you legalize? If you're not in favor of legalizing any drugs, why do you take this position?

"Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure" is the title of this essay from the journal Policy Analysis. Its author makes an analogy from the fight to ban alcohol in the U.S. in 1920s and 1930s to the current drug war. Read the essay and decide whether you feel the author's analogy is a good one. How can you compare this reading to the one in your text?