Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
Responding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in labeling certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz shows that such policies scapegoat certain drugs as well as the persons who sell, buy, or use them; and 'misleadingly pathologize the "drug problem" by defining disapproved drug use as "disease" and efforts to change the behavior as "treatment." Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
Responding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in labeling certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz shows that such policies scapegoat certain drugs as well as the persons who sell, buy, or use them; and 'misleadingly pathologize the "drug problem" by defining disapproved drug use as "disease" and efforts to change the behavior as "treatment." Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815607687 |
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| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2003 |
| Edition description: | REV |
| Pages: | 312 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.69(d) |
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