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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814289103321

Autore

Lenson David <1945->

Titolo

On drugs / / David Lenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8697-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

362.29

384.54/06/573

616.86

Soggetti

Drug abuse - Psychological aspects

Drug abuse - Social aspects

Drugs and literature

Drugs of abuse

Drugs - Physiological effect

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE: Writing about Drugs; NOTE; PART I: Drugs, Sobriety, and the Metaphysics of Consumerism; PART II: What Drugs Do and Don't; PART III: Five Drug Studies; PART IV: Problems with Drugs; CONCLUSION: Toward a Diversity of Consciousness; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Engaging, articulate, and brilliantly argued, On Drugs is destined to become a revolutionary classic that redefines what it means to be "high." Calling for the acceptance of a "diversity of consciousness," Lenson delivers a searing critique of the War on Drugs as an effort based, like all attempts to eradicate "getting high," on an incomplete understanding of human nature.