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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers

Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers

Szasz, Thomas

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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815607687
ISBN13: 9780815607687
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
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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