High : Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users /

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"Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A "drug-free America" seems to be a fantasyland that most people don&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Ingrid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Drug utilization.
Drug control.
Drug abusers.
Drug abuse.
Drug abusers > United States.
Drug control > United States.
Drug abuse > United States.
Drug utilization > United States.
United States.
Informational works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Breaking user silence
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: We are all users
  • Picture a drug user
  • Criminalization : winning the crusade but losing the war
  • Medicalization : defining drug use
  • Why we use : the pleasure and the eros of drugs
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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