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Drugs, Power, and Politics - Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy (Hardcover)
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Drugs, Power, and Politics - Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy (Hardcover)
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This book explores the increasingly broad terrain of drugs in
American society with an emphasis on politics. It begins with the
War on Drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early
1970s and extends to the current day with the vast power of the
pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), expansion of global criminal
syndicates, militarization of the drug war, and struggles between
states and federal government over the legalization of marijuana.
From the beginning, the drug war produced increasing authoritarian
tendencies in American politics, visible not only in swollen
national bureaucracies and burgeoning police functions, but in the
rise of the largest prison-industrial complex in the world, a
surveillance state, and the weakening of personal privacy and
freedoms. At the same time, the legal drug system with some of the
most profitable business operations anywhere has expanded to create
a huge medical edifice, affecting the delivery of health care,
development of modern psychology, evolution of the treatment
industry, and many other areas of contemporary life, including the
world of sports and recreation. Although prohibitionism remains
very much alive, targeting a wide range of illicit drugs, today it
is the hundreds of widely-marketed chemical substances sold by Big
Pharma that result in some of the most serious health problems
affecting society. This book explores the long historical
trajectory of both the War on Drugs and the growth of Big Pharma,
focusing on social outcomes and political consequences in the US
and beyond.
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