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Title Crack in America : demon drugs and social justice / edited by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) : illustrations
Contents Crack in context : America's latest demon drug / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- The crack attack : politics and media in the crack scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- In search of Horatio Alger : culture and ideology in the crack economy / Phillipe Bourgois -- The contingent call of the pipe : bingeing and addiction among heavy cocaine smokers / Craig Reinarman [and others] -- Two women who used cocaine too much : class, race, gender, crack, and coke / Sheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum -- Crack and homicide in New York City : a case study in the epidemiology of violence / Paul J. Goldstein [and others] -- The social pharmacology of smokeable cocaine : not all it's cracked up to be / John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer -- Crack use in Canada : a distant American cousin / Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson -- Crack in Australia : why is there no problem? / Stephen K. Mugford -- Crack in the Netherlands : effective social policy is effective drug policy / Peter D.A. Cohen -- "When constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure" : the crack scare's impact on civil rights and liberties / Ira Glasser and Loren Siegel -- The pregnancy police fight the war on drugs / Loren Siegel -- Pattern, purpose, and race in the drug war : the crisis of credibility in criminal justice / Troy Duster -- Drug prohibition in the U.S. : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- Punitive prohibition in America / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- The cultural contradictions of punitive prohibition / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Real opposition, real alternatives : reducing the harms of drug use and drug policy / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Crack (Drug) -- United States
Cocaine abuse -- United States
Drug control -- United States
Drugs and mass media -- United States
Cocaine abuse.
Social problems.
Cocaine-Related Disorders
Crack Cocaine
Social Problems
social issues.
SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
Social problems
Cocaine abuse
Crack (Drug)
Drug control
Drugs and mass media
Crack
Drogenmissbrauch
Aufsatzsammlung
Drugsgebruik.
Drugsbeleid.
Cocaïne.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Reinarman, Craig.
Levine, Harry Gene.
ISBN 9780520916913
0520916913
0585091072
9780585091075
9780520202412
0520202414
9780520202429
0520202422