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Drugging the poor : legal and illegal drugs and social inequality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Merrill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Drugs > Social aspects > United States.
Poor > Drug use > United States.
Drug traffic > Social aspects > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects > United States.
Drug abuse > United States.
Youth > Drug use > United States.
Drug addicts > United States.
Drug abuse > Health aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The global dual drug industry and drugging the poor
  • The nature of licit and illicit drug capitalism
  • Big tobacco : an aboveground drug industry
  • Big alcohol : an aboveground drug industry
  • Global pharmaceuticals : belowground features of an aboveground industry
  • The belowground illicit drug industry
  • Drugging the poor
  • The people's war on drugs.