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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823615303321

Autore

DeGrandpre Richard J

Titolo

The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / / Richard DeGrandpre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-283-02245-1

9786613022455

0-8223-8819-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

615/.1

615.1

Soggetti

Drug utilization - United States

Pharmaceutical industry - United States

Drugs - Social aspects - United States

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 (p. [283]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mama Coca -- Cult of the SSRI -- The emperor's new smokes -- The placebo text -- America's domestic drug affair -- War -- The drug reward -- Possessed by the stimulus -- Ideology.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard DeGrandpre, author of Ritalin Nation, targets the illogic underlying U.S. drug policy and Americans' limited understanding of what drugs are and how they work.