The drug problem has reached epidemic levels in the United States. Many believe it is the most serious internal crisis this country has faced since the Civil Way. Despite the billions of dollars pumped into the federal drug-fighting effort, we're still not winning. Remarkably, no book or document has set forth a step-by-step plan for solving the nation's drug problem-until now. In The Phoenix Solution: Getting Serious About Winning America's Drug War, celebrated former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offers not only a startling analysis of current drug policy but presents a blueprint for bringing the crisis to an end. Bugliosi outlines two separate, original approaches to drug control which, if implemented, promise to bring about victory within a year. Taking a hard look at the common assumptions about drugs and drug control that are the basis of our national policy. Bugliosi reveals astonishing facts about the inept techniques that have been uses to fight the war on drugs. Offered in the tradition of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, a call to arms for the American Revolution, The Phoenix Solution is a call to arms for the war on drugs. An extraordinary and potentially historic book, it is must reading for America's leadership, its drug fighting agencies, and every concerned citizen.