Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge - Benjamin Y. Fong

Descriere Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge - Benjamin Y. Fong

\nDrugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy? \nAmericans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics--across the board, consumption has shot up in the 21st century. At the same time, the United States is home to the largest prison system in the world, justified in part by a now zombified war on drugs. How did we get here? \n \nQuick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century. \n \nThrough nine chapters, each devoted to the modern history of a drug or class of drugs, Fong examines Americans' fraught relationship with psychoactive substances. As society changes it produces different forms of stress, isolation, and alienation. These changes, in turn, shape the sorts of drugs society chooses. \n \nBy laying out the histories, functions, and experiences of our chemical comforts, the hope is to help answer that ever perplexing question: what does it mean to be an American?\n

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VERSO

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9781804290170

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