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From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive and shocking account of addiction and black tar heroin in the heartland of America.

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(Paperback)

It will explode many of the myths and misconceptions about drug use, and tap into fraught debates about how politicians, parents and police should respond.

In the wake of the internet boom, globalisation and a decade of decadence, Britain sits at a crossroads in the legalisation-versus-intolerance debate.

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Offers descriptions of the growing and harvesting process; the inventory of tools and paraphernalia required to smoke opium as the Chinese did; its transitions from a major herb to a narcotic that has been suppressed by the modern; and art, culture, philosophy, pharmacology and psychology of this longstanding Asian custom.

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Here people in recovery share their experiences and insights in dealing with long suppressed feelings of anger, loss, guilt, love and self-acceptance. Kettelhack shows how 'sticking with it' ultimately creates a sense of life as an ongoing adventure, more vivid and exciting than thought possible. The book has examples from the lives of real people.

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Topics range from drug addiction among male, female, teen, and aging populations, and among White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native American, and other groups, using liquor, cocaine, methamphetamine, khat, and/or other lesser known drugs, to behavioral addictions including online gaming, excessive buying, and eating disorders.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A selection of 25 articles on the question of drug legalization - chosen either because the editors consider them to be effectively argued, or because they are written by leaders of the debate and capture essential positions in a readable form.

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As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic.

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Offers an overview of the use of drugs among Aboriginal people and surveys the extant international literature. This book also gives descriptions of the interaction between the setting and the users, examines the substance itself, and canvasses a range of possible intervention programs.

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Gives a unique perspective on approaches to problem drinking among Aboriginal people, and the role that cultural difference has played. It finds that in the 1980s there was an innovative and lively international debate about addictions, yet these understandings and potential solutions did not find their way into Aboriginal programs.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The bizarre history of the all-American drug epidemic.