Crack in America : demon drugs and social justice / edited by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1997. - 1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Crack in context : America's latest demon drug / The crack attack : politics and media in the crack scare / In search of Horatio Alger : culture and ideology in the crack economy / The contingent call of the pipe : bingeing and addiction among heavy cocaine smokers / Two women who used cocaine too much : class, race, gender, crack, and coke / Crack and homicide in New York City : a case study in the epidemiology of violence / The social pharmacology of smokeable cocaine : not all it's cracked up to be / Crack use in Canada : a distant American cousin / Crack in Australia : why is there no problem? / Crack in the Netherlands : effective social policy is effective drug policy / "When constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure" : the crack scare's impact on civil rights and liberties / The pregnancy police fight the war on drugs / Pattern, purpose, and race in the drug war : the crisis of credibility in criminal justice / Drug prohibition in the U.S. : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Punitive prohibition in America / The cultural contradictions of punitive prohibition / Real opposition, real alternatives : reducing the harms of drug use and drug policy / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Phillipe Bourgois -- Craig Reinarman [and others] -- Sheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum -- Paul J. Goldstein [and others] -- John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer -- Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson -- Stephen K. Mugford -- Peter D.A. Cohen -- Ira Glasser and Loren Siegel -- Loren Siegel -- Troy Duster -- Ethan A. Nadelmann -- Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine.

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Crack (Drug)--United States.
Cocaine abuse--United States.
Drug control--United States.
Drugs and mass media--United States.
SELF-HELP--Substance Abuse & Addictions--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Psychopathology--Addiction.
Cocaine abuse.
Crack (Drug)
Drug control.
Drugs and mass media.


United States.


Electronic books.

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