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Confronting the drug control establishment :

Keys, David P.

Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual / David Patrick Keys and John F. Galliher. - Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series in deviance and social control . - SUNY series in deviance and social control. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Origins and overview of the professional life of Alfred Ray Lindesmith -- Lindesmith's experience in the Chicago School of Sociology: the influence of Herbert Blum ... -- A revised theory of opiate addiction and the writing of the book Opiate addiction -- Contributions to psychotherapy, social psychology, and symbolic interaction -- Lindesmith versus Anslinger: efforts to reform national drug policy, 1937-1950 and the film Drug addict -- Writing The addict and the law: a statement of policy -- Public discourse: Lindesmith in the role of humanist citizen and public intellectual.

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"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a policy." "Throughout his life Lindesmith attempted to utilize his research for the creation of more rational and humane drug control laws. His consistent message was that the addict's self-concept is a central element in human addiction. Lindesmith felt that an overriding influence on an addict's self-concept is a fear of withdrawal, which keeps an addict from seeking treatment and becomes a key driving force in the drug problem."--Jacket.


Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.


Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212


English.

0585317976 9780585317977




Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991.
Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-
Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991.
Lindesmith, Alfred Ray.


Social psychologists--United States--Biography.
Sociologists--United States--Biography.
Opium abuse.
Drug legalization--United States.
Psychosociologues--�Etats-Unis--Biographies.
Sociologues--Biographies.--�Etats-Unis
Opiomanie.
Drogues--L�egalisation--�Etats-Unis.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.
Drug legalization.
Opium abuse.
Social psychologists.
Sociologists.
Drogenpolitik
Drug and Narcotic Control.
Opioid-Related Disorders.
Psychology, Social.
Sociology.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Change.


United States.
USA.
United States.


Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biography.

HM1031.L56 / K49 2000eb

301/.092 B

WZ 100 L745 2000