The Resource High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker
High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker
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The item High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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"--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages)
- Contents
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- Preface: Breaking user silence
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: We are all users
- Picture a drug user
- Criminalization : winning the crusade but losing the war
- Medicalization : defining drug use
- Why we use : the pleasure and the eros of drugs
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780295742335
- Label
- High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users
- Title
- High
- Title remainder
- drugs, desire, and a nation of users
- Statement of responsibility
- Ingrid Walker
- Subject
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- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse -- United States
- Drug abusers -- United States
- Drug control -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- United States
- Drug utilization -- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walker, Ingrid
- Dewey number
- 362.290973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- charts
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV5825
- LC item number
- .W38123 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Drug utilization
- Drug abuse
- Drug control
- Drug abusers
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Drug abuse
- United States
- Label
- High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: Breaking user silence -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We are all users -- Picture a drug user -- Criminalization : winning the crusade but losing the war -- Medicalization : defining drug use -- Why we use : the pleasure and the eros of drugs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 993623981
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780295742335
- Lccn
- 2017032832
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, charts
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvct3k00
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)993623981
- Label
- High : drugs, desire, and a nation of users, Ingrid Walker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: Breaking user silence -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We are all users -- Picture a drug user -- Criminalization : winning the crusade but losing the war -- Medicalization : defining drug use -- Why we use : the pleasure and the eros of drugs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 993623981
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780295742335
- Lccn
- 2017032832
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, charts
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvct3k00
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)993623981
Subject
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse -- United States
- Drug abusers -- United States
- Drug control -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- United States
- Drug utilization -- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology
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