High Walker Ingrid
High Walker Ingrid Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive…
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High Walker Ingrid
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. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs and criminalize others? 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.
This divided approach shapes public policy, the justice system, research, social services, and health care. Why do we accept the necessity of a doctor-prescribed opiate but not the same thing bought off the street? 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