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High - Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users (Paperback)
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High - Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users (Paperback)
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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't want to inhabit. High: Drugs, Desire, and a
Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies
and social norms. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs and
criminalize others? Why do we accept the necessity of a
doctor-prescribed opiate but not the same thing bought off the
street? This divided approach shapes public policy, the justice
system, research, social services, and health care. And despite the
decades-old war on drugs, drug use remains relatively unchanged.
Ingrid Walker speaks to the silencing effects of both
criminalization and medicalization, incorporating first-person
narratives to show a wide variety of user experiences with drugs.
By challenging current thinking about drugs and users, Walker calls
for a next wave of drug policy reform in the United States,
beginning with recognizing the full spectrum of drug use practices.
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