Social Science : Social Issues : Drug Addiction & Substance Abuse

Preface to the Third Edition. Preface to the Expanded Edition. Preface. 1. The American Disease. 2. Diplomats and Reformers. 3. The Harrison Act. 4. The Search for Cures. 5. State and Local Narcotic Control. 6. The Federal Assault on Addiction Maintenance. 7. The Narcotic Clinic Era. 8. The Troubled Twenties. 9. Marihuana and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. 10. Federal Support of the Medical Approach. 11. The Return of Drug Toleration, 1965-1985. 12. Renewed Efforts at Control, 1986-1997. 13. The Dynamics of Narcotic Control. Notes. Index more...

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Martin Elvins' book is the first to trace the evolution of anti-drugs policies at European Union level from the late 1960s to the present. Phases of drug policy development, key policy actors and institutions are described with particular reference to the influence of transnational networks of expertise. Policy development is placed in the context of both European integration and a broad harmonization of international policies against drug trafficking. Concerns are also raised about secretive and anti-democratic features on intergovernmental EU decision-making. more...

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This text presents a comprehensive collection of studies of the social and economic consequences of chronic pulmonary illness. The papers assess how communities, families and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects. more...

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In this work, Ted Galen Carpenter examines the domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs and how it has received considerable criticism over the years from Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Kurt Schmoke, and other luminaries who have catalogued the destructive effects on American society. more...

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Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical industry, and psychotropic drugs. Charting how these worlds intersect with the wider popular culture, she reveals how people living under the description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for manic behavior. Mania, Martin shows, has come to be regarded as a distant frontier that invites exploration because it seems to offer fame and profits to pioneers, while depression is imagined as something that should be eliminated altogether with the help of drugs. Bipolar Expeditions argues that mania and depression have a cultural life outside the confines of diagnosis, that the experiences of people living with bipolar disorder belong fully to the human condition, and that even the most so-called rational everyday practices are intertwined with irrational ones. Martin's own experience with bipolar disorder informs her analysis and lends a personal perspective to this complex story. more...

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