High: Drugs, Desire & a Nation of Users - Ingrid Walker
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Law
Narcotics
Pharmacology
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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 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 and 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.
The book is published by University of Washington Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
“A fresh approach to drug policy discussions.” (Nancy Campbell, author of Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research)
“Walker urges us to move beyond the failures of drug policy rooted in prohibition.” (Rebecca Tiger, author of Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System)
“A thoughtful analysis of the ways we and our institutions perceive and interact with people who use drugs.” (Maj. Neill Franklin (Ret.), executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership)
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
August 17th, 2020
thats right we should be able to buy opioids when ever we want, heck we should be putting it in food.
August 17th, 2020
fall19: In some languages “medicine” and “harddrugs” are two completely different words. There might even be languages where “drugs” and “food” are the same word.
It is all a matter of perspective.
August 18th, 2020
exploited, this isn’t about that. The author asks “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?” the answer is painfully obvious and he is being wilfully dense. i for one am grateful that its an illegal substance or you would find in everything just like sugar. Some restaurants in china are already putting opioids in their food to make addicts out of their customers. imagine what would happen if it wasn’t illegal.
August 18th, 2020
Thank you daenigma100: another posting of a text which comes close to necessary reading.
Those of us fortunate enough to live in a country where there isn’t - yet - mass opioid abuse, should remember how easily the coincidence of protected pharmaceutical cartels, systemic racism, and populist government brought this blessing to the US.
Coca Cola has always contained at least one addictive ingredient: it’s the American way of business.
Let’s remember it could happen here.
August 18th, 2020
…it’s all just a chlorinated chicken away for ya.
August 19th, 2020
fall19/know nothing. Alcohol is worse than all the street drugs & illegal use prescription combined.
Alcohol ruins more individuals & families & costs society more than all the street drugs combined.
If there is a gateway drug, it’s alcohol.
Alcohol is so toxic to the human body that if it was discovered today it would not stand a snowball’s chance in hell of being approved for human consumption. Any toxicologist will tell you that.
Ask any seasoned cop if he could remove just one mind/mood altering substance to make his job easier & he will tell you alcohol.
Alcohol & tobacco are legal today via the grandfather clause.
You need to stop running your mouth pretending to know things you don’t.
August 19th, 2020
Fall19, begging the question isn’t an argument, it’s a logical fallacy.
Also, we can buy opioids whenever we want, they’re called poppies and a plurality of folks grow them in their yards to this day. Kettle + seed pods + water = opioids. EPA actually tried to ban them, and failed. Think big pharma is a bad lobby? Try opposing your own granny and her summer landscaping plans.
August 19th, 2020
Meant DEA. Damn three letter agencies. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-06-me-10160-story.html
September 10th, 2021
Fall19
August 17th, 2020
“thats right we should be able to buy opioids when ever we want, heck we should be putting it in food.”
Dude they’re in your corn flakes. Wake up:-)
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