Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual / David Patrick Keys and John F. Galliher.

By:

Keys, David P

Contributor(s):

Galliher, John F

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TextSeries: SUNY series in deviance and social controlPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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0585317976
9780585317977

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Confronting the drug control establishment.DDC classification:

301/.092 B 21

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HM1031.L56 K49 2000eb

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WZ 100 L745 2000

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Contents:

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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Review: "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.

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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.

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