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Quick fixes, drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st-century binge, Benjamin Y. Fong

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Quick fixes, drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st-century binge, Benjamin Y. Fong
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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Quick fixes
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bibliography
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1372564012
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Benjamin Y. Fong
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The Jacobin series
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drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st-century binge
Summary
"Fong examines Americans' fraught relationship with psychoactive substances"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Coffee, or the Serene Delight -- Cigarettes, or Knowledge Is Not Power -- Alcohol, or Commodity Fetishism -- Opiates, or Civilizing the Orient -- Amphetamines, or Inappropriate Perseverance -- Psychotropics, or Diagnostic Creeps and Rational Paranoids -- Psychedelics, or the Dialectic of Control -- Addendum on Peyote -- Addendum on Dissociative Anesthetics -- Cocaine, or Hyperreality -- Marijuana, or Profit Wins in the End -- Conclusion
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Drugs in America from Prohibition to the twenty-first-century binge
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