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Table of Contents

Preface: Breaking User Silence
Acknowledgments
Introduction | We Are All Users

1. Picture a Drug User
Jim: Feeding My Family
Mordecai: Normal
Ella: Time

2. Criminalization: Winning the Crusade but Losing the War
Jason: The Little Engine That Could
Marcus: Reflections of a Philosopher-Cop on the Drug War

3. Medicalization: Defining Drug Use
Lucius: Not What You Think
Nadine: Like a Storm
Jose: The Cure
Brittany: Ask Your Doctor

4. Why We Use: The Pleasure and the Eros of Drugs
Bonnie: Evening Smoke
Cosmo: What Could Be
Mark: It’s Not What, It’s How
Kyla: Note from a Socially Integrated Drug User

Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher University of Washington Press
      Published 20 October 2017
      ISBN-13 9780295742328
      978-0295742328
      ISBN-10 0295742321
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      Manufacturing industries Addiction and therapy Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preface: Breaking User Silence
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction | We Are All Users

      1. Picture a Drug User
      Jim: Feeding My Family
      Mordecai: Normal
      Ella: Time

      2. Criminalization: Winning the Crusade but Losing the War
      Jason: The Little Engine That Could
      Marcus: Reflections of a Philosopher-Cop on the Drug War

      3. Medicalization: Defining Drug Use
      Lucius: Not What You Think
      Nadine: Like a Storm
      Jose: The Cure
      Brittany: Ask Your Doctor

      4. Why We Use: The Pleasure and the Eros of Drugs
      Bonnie: Evening Smoke
      Cosmo: What Could Be
      Mark: It’s Not What, It’s How
      Kyla: Note from a Socially Integrated Drug User

      Conclusion
      Notes
      Glossary
      Selected Bibliography
      Index

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