| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Crack in context : America's latest demon drug / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- The crack attack : politics and media in the crack scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- In search of Horatio Alger : culture and ideology in the crack economy / Phillipe Bourgois -- The contingent call of the pipe : bingeing and addiction among heavy cocaine smokers / Craig Reinarman [and others] -- Two women who used cocaine too much : class, race, gender, crack, and coke / Sheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum -- Crack and homicide in New York City : a case study in the epidemiology of violence / Paul J. Goldstein [and others] -- The social pharmacology of smokeable cocaine : not all it's cracked up to be / John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer -- Crack use in Canada : a distant American cousin / Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson -- Crack in Australia : why is there no problem? / Stephen K. Mugford -- Crack in the Netherlands : effective social policy is effective drug policy / Peter D.A. Cohen -- "When constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure" : the crack scare's impact on civil rights and liberties / Ira Glasser and Loren Siegel -- The pregnancy police fight the war on drugs / Loren Siegel -- Pattern, purpose, and race in the drug war : the crisis of credibility in criminal justice / Troy Duster -- Drug prohibition in the U.S. : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- Punitive prohibition in America / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- The cultural contradictions of punitive prohibition / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Real opposition, real alternatives : reducing the harms of drug use and drug policy / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Crack (Drug) -- United States.
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Cocaine abuse -- United States.
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Drug control -- United States.
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Drugs and mass media -- United States.
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SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
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Cocaine abuse. (OCoLC)fst01430058
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Crack (Drug) (OCoLC)fst00882124
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Drug control. (OCoLC)fst01032891
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Drugs and mass media. (OCoLC)fst00898971
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reinarman, Craig.
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Levine, Harry Gene.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crack in America. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 0520202414 (DLC) 96047765 (OCoLC)35842613 |
| ISBN |
9780520916913 (electronic bk.) |
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0520916913 (electronic bk.) |
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0585091072 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585091075 (electronic bk.) |
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