This Is Your Country on Drugs

The Secret History of Getting High in America
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-16739-7
Verlag: Turner Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Seven surprising consequences of the U.S. approach to drugs--find out the facts in THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY ON DRUGS

Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use.

A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether.

The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago.

NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers--just as President Clinton knew it would.

President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic.

Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason.

The fastest-growing drug in America is a legal hallucinogen you can buy on the Internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grim, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Acid Casualty.

2. A Pharmacopoeia Utopia.

3. Prohibition, Inc.

4. America's Little Helper.

5. New Coke.

6. D.A.R.E. to Be Different.

7. Border Justice.

8. Kids Today.

9. YouTrip.

10. Blowback.

11. Confl icts of Interest.

12. Puff, Puff, Live.

13. Cat and Mouse.

14. Acid Redux.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan Grim is the Huffington Post's senior congressional correspondent and has written for Slate, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and the Washington Post.