High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users / Ingrid Walker.
"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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University of Washington Press,
[2017]
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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.