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American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
by Sterling R Braswell  Publisher Comments Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in...
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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
by Ann Marlowe 
Publisher Comments ”Heroin,” writes Ann Marlowe, ”is a stand-in, a stopgap, a mask for what we believe is missing. Like the ’objects’ seen by Plato’s man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can’t see...
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Intelligence Agents
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments The Intelligence Agents is a collection of memos, articles, pictures, etc. written in "future history" reflecting life on planet earth during Leary's lifespan. A world-renowned psychologist, a stand-up philosopher, a prisoner of the Nixon administration...
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Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America Before 1940
by David Courtwright Publisher Comments In this eye-opening book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction. Once observed primarily among upper- and middle-class...
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Drink: A Social History of America
by Andrew Barr Synopsis In this "Food & Wine" 1999 Book of the Year, Barr considers the cultural history of drink in America and of a nation born of a rebel spirit and intoxicated by liberty. of photos....
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Politics of Consciousness: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Steve Kubby Publisher Comments The War on Drugs is really a war on freedom of thought. Our fundamental right to pursuit of happiness includes in the innate right to explore inner space without government interference. Author Steve Kubby explains how the authorities have short...
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Sociocultural Perspectives on Volatile Solvent Use
by Fred Beauvais Book News Annotation The five contributions in this volume discuss the identification, special problems, treatment, and prevention of solvent abuse, especially in some Native American communities. Simultaneously published by the Haworth Press, Inc. as a special issue of...
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Psychedelic Trips for the Mind
by Paul Krassner Synopsis When People magazine called Paul Krassner "the father of the underground press", he immediately demanded a blood test. In this sequel to the Firecracker Award -- winning Pot Stories for the Soul, he proves People right. Psychedelic Trips for the Soul...
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Searching for Alternatives: Drug-Control Policy in the United States
by Melvyn B Krauss Book News Annotation Reprint. Originally published in 1983, U. of Queensland Press. Dixon (linguistics, Australian National U.) provides readers with an accessible and interesting account of his adventures and discoveries as he studied the Australian aboriginal language...
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Square Dancing in the Ice Age
by Abbie Hoffman Publisher Comments A book from the U.S. underground, covering Abbie -- in disguise -- interviewing people, touring the FBI building, and organizing a campaign to save the St. Lawrence River. The articles are creative, funny, nervy, and (gasp) political....
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Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise
by Ronald Siegel Book News Annotation Siegal (UCLA) draws on extensive experience with psychopharmacology to clarify some of the issues of use, control and abuse. Extensive bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Hemp Culture: a Short History of a Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses
by Mark Bourrie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index....
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Essential Substances: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society
by Richard Rudgley Book News Annotation Rudgley (anthropology, Oxford U.) delves into the use of mind- altering substances, especially in tribal and prehistoric societies. Among them are magic mushrooms in Siberia, tobacco and peyote in the Americas, qat in Africa, betel in southeast Asia...
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Surveillance, Privacy, & the Law: Employee Drug Testing & the Politics of Social Control
by John Gilliom Publisher Comments Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and politicians divided over whether it was an unnecessary and...
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Confronting the Drug Control Establishment: Alfred Lindesmith as a Public Intellectual
by David Patrick Keys Publisher Comments In biographical essays dedicated to addicts, Keys (political science, West Texas A&M U.) and Galliher (sociology, U. of Missouri) focus more on the drug expert's career than personal life (1905-) though a few photos are included. Influenced by the...
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Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray Publisher Comments A hard-hitting, eye-opening assault on the conventional wisdom about drugs. Not only have we lost the drug war, but we are suffering its cost in crime, human misery, and billions of dollars of taxpayers' money. This book dramatizes the disastrous...
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Neuropolitique: A New Vision of Neuropolitics
by Timothy Franc Leary Publisher Comments The first version of Neuropolitics was written between 1973 - 1976 when Dr. Leary was in prison. Several chapters were composed during solitary confinement. Leary explores the role of the dissedent/philosopher and offers a multitude of brilliant...
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Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States
by Stephen R Kandall Publisher Comments In 1989 Jennifer Johnson was convicted of delivering a controlled substance to a minor. That the minor happened to be Johnson's unborn child made her case all the more complex, controversial, andultimately, historical. Stephen R. Kandall, a neonatologist...
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Illegal Drugs (Current Controversies)
by Charles P Cozic Synopsis Despite efforts to stanch the inflow of cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs, the problems associated with the illegal drug trade persist. Some commentators call for an intensified "war on drugs" and a crackdown on traffickers and dealers, while others...
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Pot Stories for the Soul
by Paul Krassner Synopsis To solicit these stories, Paul Krassner contacted 250 friends and acquaintances and announced the project in High Times and on the air. Including "The Bust at Ken Kesey's Place, " "How the Yippies Mailed 30,000 Joints to Perfect Strangers, " and "The...
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