Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in Society

Undergraduate

Licit and illicit drugs make illuminating case studies for our economic and political systems. We investigate the following questions: Are profit motives and humanitarian concerns in irresolvable conflict? Does the international network of illegal drugs show the future of globalization? Does pharmaceutical lobbying demonstrate the anti-democratic influence of money? Is the “war on drugs” political demagoguery or a rational response to human weakness?