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Quick fixes : drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st-century binge / Benjamin Y. Fong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fong, Benjamin Y., author.
- Series:
- Jacobin series
- The Jacobin series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug abuse--United States--History.
- Drug abuse.
- Drugs of abuse--United States--History.
- Drugs of abuse.
- Psychotropic drugs--United States--History.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the twenty-first-century binge
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2023.
- Summary:
- Quick Fixes blows away the pharmacological fog to take a sober look at how drugs have shaped American society. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love for and intense hatred of these substances has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century. Through 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 chances, it produces different forms of stress, isolation, and alienation. These changes, in turn, affect the development and spread of medications and narcotics among the populace. (page [2] of cover)
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Coffee, or the Serene Delight
- Cigarettes, or Knowledge Is Not Power
- Alcohol, or Commodity Fetishism
- Opiates, or Civilizing the Orient
- Amphetamines, or Inappropriate Perseverance
- Psychotropics, or Diagnostic Creeps and Rational Paranoids
- Psychedelics, or the Dialectic of Control
- Addendum on Peyote
- Addendum on Dissociative Anesthetics
- Cocaine, or Hyperreality
- Marijuana, or Profit Wins in the End
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fong, Benjamin Y. Quick fixes
- ISBN:
- 9781804290170
- 1804290173
- OCLC:
- 1372564012
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