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Book Review

Organized Crime and American Power: A History. By Michael Woodiwiss. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii, 468 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-8020-4700-9. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8020-8278-5.)
In the mid-1980s, crusaders against organized crime argued that mandatory job-related drug tests would reduce demand for illegal substances and strike criminal cartels "in the pocketbook" (p. 352). In fact, according to Michael Woodiwiss, such policies had little impact on drug use. They did, however, stimulate the growth of a "drug abuse industrial complex" (p. 353) of lawyers, urine-testing laboratories, and collection consultants. On the fringes, evasion artists entered the business of selling "100 per cent pure urine" (p. 353). One such Texas entrepreneur even staged a "urine ball" to raise money for a legal defense fund. The "urine ball" featured a special 1930s-style dance production entitled "Urine the Money" (p. 354). . . .
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