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Why We Take Drugs : Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World
by Tom Yardley
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Overview
Why We Take Drugs provides a timely intervention in the growing debate about the wisdom of the ongoing 'war on drugs'. Rather than adopting the assumption that drug and alcohol use is a problem that poses a threat to society, this book makes a case for the idea that society is a problem for intoxicant drug use and that it is society that poses a threat, by denying those who seek intoxication a legitimate and socially sanctioned space in which to experience these altered states.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415696104
- ISBN-10: 0415696100
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
- Page Count: 170
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