Fong Benjamin Yen - Yi
Fong Benjamin Yen - Yi - Quick Fixes Drugs In America From Prohibition To The 21st Century Binge - Hardcover
Fong Benjamin Yen - Yi - Quick Fixes Drugs In America From Prohibition To The 21st Century Binge - Hardcover
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Description: Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy? Americans are in the midst of a world - historic drug binge. Opiates amphetamines benzodiazepines marijuana antidepressants antipsychotics across the board consumption has shot up in the 21st century. 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. How did we get here? Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. 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 drugs Fong examines Americans fraught relationship with psychoactive substances. As society changes it produces different forms of stress isolation and alienation. These changes in turn shape the sorts of drugs society chooses. By laying out the histories functions and experiences of our chemical comforts the hope is to help answer that ever perplexing question: what does it mean to be an American?
Title: Quick Fixes Drugs In America From Prohibition To The 21st Century Binge
Author(s): Fong Benjamin Yen - Yi
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804290170
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Series: Jacobin
Category: Chemical Industries
Description: Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy? Americans are in the midst of a world - historic drug binge. Opiates amphetamines benzodiazepines marijuana antidepressants antipsychotics across the board consumption has shot up in the 21st century. 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. How did we get here? Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. 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 drugs Fong examines Americans fraught relationship with psychoactive substances. As society changes it produces different forms of stress isolation and alienation. These changes in turn shape the sorts of drugs society chooses. By laying out the histories functions and experiences of our chemical comforts the hope is to help answer that ever perplexing question: what does it mean to be an American?
Title: Quick Fixes Drugs In America From Prohibition To The 21st Century Binge
Author(s): Fong Benjamin Yen - Yi
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804290170
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Series: Jacobin
Category: Chemical Industries
