The American Drug Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Drug Culture write by Thomas S. Weinberg. This book was released on 2017-12-14. The American Drug Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems; other social institutions; and mental and physical health. It features more coverage of alcohol, the most widely-used drug in the U.S., than other texts for this course. Authors Thomas S. Weinberg, Gerhard Falk, and Ursula Falk include case studies from their field research to give you empathetic insights into the situation of those with substance and alcohol use disorders.
The Cult of Pharmacology
The Cult of Pharmacology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of Pharmacology write by Richard DeGrandpre. This book was released on 2006-11-27. The Cult of Pharmacology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and marijuana was available as a tincture of cannabis sold by Parke Davis and Company. Exploring how this rather benign relationship with psychoactive drugs was transformed into one of confusion and chaos, The Cult of Pharmacology tells the dramatic story of how, as one legal drug after another fell from grace, new pharmaceutical substances took their place. Whether Valium or OxyContin at the pharmacy, cocaine or meth purchased on the street, or alcohol and tobacco from the corner store, drugs and drug use proliferated in twentieth-century America despite an escalating war on “drugs.” Richard DeGrandpre, a past fellow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and author of the best-selling book Ritalin Nation, delivers a remarkably original interpretation of drugs by examining the seductive but ill-fated belief that they are chemically predestined to be either good or evil. He argues that the determination to treat the medically sanctioned use of drugs such as Miltown or Seconal separately from the illicit use of substances like heroin or ecstasy has blinded America to how drugs are transformed by the manner in which a culture deals with them. Bringing forth a wealth of scientific research showing the powerful influence of social and psychological factors on how the brain is affected by drugs, DeGrandpre demonstrates that psychoactive substances are not angels or demons irrespective of why, how, or by whom they are used. The Cult of Pharmacology is a bold and necessary new account of America’s complex relationship with drugs.
American Drug Culture
American Drug Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Drug Culture write by Justus C. Weathersby. This book was released on 1987. American Drug Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cult of Pharmacology
The Cult of Pharmacology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of Pharmacology write by Richard J. DeGrandpre. This book was released on 2006-11-27. The Cult of Pharmacology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard DeGrandpre, author of Ritalin Nation, targets the illogic underlying U.S. drug policy and Americans' limited understanding of what drugs are and how they work.
Straight Dope
Straight Dope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Straight Dope write by LeRon L. Barton. This book was released on 2013-02-24. Straight Dope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Straight Dope is book that asks the simple question - why are drugs so entrenched in America's society. Instead of doing the same ol' rigamarole song and dance and interviewing talking heads and experts, Straight Dope gets to the heart of the matter and talks to the people at ground zero - the drug addicts whose life revolves around getting high; the criminals who profit of the misery of the addicts; the teachers who deal with the children in drug abused homes; the drug counselors that try and balance breaking the addicts cycle of addiction while dealing with the bureaucracy of government politics; the legal marijuana growers battle against tobacco companies and how to thrive in the growing industry; and the parents issue of how they will prepare their children to just say no. Inspired by the late great Studs Terkel's many works, Straight Dope is comprised of raw and uncut hard hitting interviews about the participants experiences, thoughts, opinions, and outlook on drug abuse, why or why not drugs should be legal, and how the government is handling the war on drugs. Removing nearly all of the questions, the interviews are more like monologues, allowing the reader to feel as if the subject is just, "talking," instead of your standard interview.In addition to the real life accounts of people, Straight Dope also has spoken word pieces compiled of biting social commentary, as well as my own personal reflections composed of my experiences with drugs.
