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1 online resource (351 pages) |
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Front cover -- Living with Drugs -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: Traditional and Modern Drug Use -- 1. The Treatment of Intoxication and Ecstasy in Christian Churches -- 1.1. Drugs, ecstasy and religion -- 1.2. Why are Christians afraid of intoxication? -- 1.3. Ecstasy in Christian lands: an apologetic spectacle -- 2. Between Boredom and Intoxication -- 2.1. The hand, the cigarette, the glass -- 2.2. A thirst for intoxication is not an alcohol addiction -- 2.3. The discomfort linked to repetition -- 2.4. Conclusion: outputting images -- 2.5. References |
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3. Drugs and Development: Qat, Ethiopia's "Green Gold" -- 3.1. In Ethiopia, the tide of qat is chasing coffee away from Hararghe -- 3.2. From the "leaf of Allah" to the "green gold" -- 3.3. The "green gold" rush -- 3.4. Morals, development and urbanization -- 3.5. References -- 4. Qat in Yemen, a War Profiteer -- 4.1. An irresistible expansion -- 4.2. The rhythm of qat -- 4.3. Attempts at prohibition -- 4.4. References -- 5. A History of the Present on Drugs: Opium, Heroin and Methamphetamine -- 5.1. Prelude. Everyday history and historical anthropology -- 5.2. Opium as genealogy (1900-1955) |
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Table 5.1. Number of shirehkesh-khanehs (1940) -- 5.3. Heroin and modernity (1955-1990) -- 5.4. Methamphetamines, representatives of post-modernity -- 5.5. Epilogue. Time, speed and drugs -- 6. "White Death" Heroin's Odyssey in Greece During the 20th Century -- 6.1. The first wave -- 6.2. Sources of heroin -- 6.3. Consumption patterns -- 6.4. Heroin and hashish -- 6.5. The imagery of "heroin addiction" -- 6.6. The eclipse and reappearance of heroin -- 7. Drug Prohibition in Vietnam -- 7.1. Prohibition under the monarchical regime -- 7.2. Legalization and leasing in the kingdom |
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7.3. Colonial monopoly and prohibition pledges -- 7.4. The Indochina war, instrumentalization of drugs against a backdrop of prohibitionist desire -- 7.5. Independent Vietnam -- 7.6. Reunification of Vietnam, prohibition and forced detoxification -- 7.7. Regeneration of drug addiction, public health and repressive politics in contemporary Vietnam -- 7.8. Not to conclude -- 7.9. References -- 8. "Ganja in the Mountains, Sabu in the Sea": The Rural Drug Landscape in Aceh, Indonesia -- 8.1. The normality of drugs -- 8.2. Geosymbolic of psychotropic drugs |
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8.3. The drug experience: illegality and transformation -- 8.4. Two careers -- 8.5. The drug-free village -- 8.6. Conclusion -- 8.7. References -- 9. A "Pacific" Drug? Vanuatu's Kava and the American Market -- 9.1. Drinking kava in New York City -- 9.2. A traditional plant in the contemporary Pacific -- 9.3. Kava, the symbol of Vanuatu's renaissance -- 9.4. The birth of a market -- 9.5. Kava storming the Western market -- 9.6. Conclusion: an "authentic" and "organic" country? -- 9.7. References -- PART 2: The War on Drugs: A Humanitarian Plague |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Substance abuse.
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Substance abuse -- Treatment.
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Substance abuse -- Prevention
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Substance abuse -- Law and legislation.
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substance abuse.
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Substance abuse
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Substance abuse -- Law and legislation
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Substance abuse -- Prevention
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Substance abuse -- Treatment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stella, Alessandro
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Coppel, Anne.
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| ISBN |
0128229853 |
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9780128229859 |
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