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Meth Mania : a History of Methamphetamine.

Ice. Methedrine. Crank. Crystal. Whatever its guise, the social and political contexts of methamphetamine share a certain uniqueness. Nicholas Parsons chronicles the history and mythology of methamphetamine in the United States from the 1940s--when it was hailed as a wonder drug--to the present. In...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parsons, Nicholas L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Book Title; Table of Contents; Lis of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1-From Wonder Drug to Public Health Menace; Supply-and-Demand Perspective on Drug Problems; The Social Construction of Drugs and Drug Problems; Organization of the Book; Research Methodology; Notes; 2-Early Drug Use; Drug Scares and Early Federal Drug Legislation; Long-Term Consequences of the Harrison Act; Enter Amphetamines; Notes; 3-The Emergence of Amphetamines; Pharmacological Enlightenment; Amphetamines in American Culture, 1932-1960; Benzedrine Backlash; Historical Context of Early Amphetamines, 1929-1960. 
505 8 |a Speed Diversion and the State's Response, 1960-1965Notes; 4-The First Scare: Speed Freaks; Intravenous Use by Korean War Veterans; Mass Media and Methedrine; The End of an "Epidemic"; Notes; 5-The Second Scare: Ice; The New Black Market for Methamphetamine; From Blip to Panic: The Second Methamphetamine Scare; Notes; 6-The Third Scare: Crystal Meth; Clichéd Claims; Tweakers: Constructions of Crystal Meth Users; Changing Frames of Crystal Meth; Solutions to the Crystal Meth Problem; Notes; 7-Context and Consequences; Epidemiology of Methamphetamine, ca. 1995-2012. 
505 8 |a The Relationship Between Methamphetamine Data and Media TrendsWhy the Methamphetamine Scare Peaked in 2005: Context; Cat and Mouse Redux; Notes; 8-New Panics, New Approaches; Repeating the Past; New Directions; Notes; Appendix: Methodology Note; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapters 5-7; Acronyms; References; Index; About the Book; Social Problems, Social Constructions: series list. 
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