Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge Y. Fong Benjamin
Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge Y. Fong Benjamin Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines,…
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Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge Y. Fong Benjamin
Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics--across the board, consumption has shot up in the 21st century. What can they tell us about our society and economy?Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge.
How did we get here?Drugs in American Capitalism is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. At the same time, the United States is home to the largest prison system in the world, justified in part by a now zombified "war" on drugs. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.Through nine chapters, each devoted to the modern history of a drug or class of
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