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drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st-century binge
Quick Fixes blows away the pharmacological fog to take a sober look at how drugs have shaped American society. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love for and intense hatred of these substances has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century. Through nine chapters, each devoted to the modern history of a drug or class of drugs, Fong examines Americans' fraught relationship with psychoactive substances. As society chances, it produces different forms of stress, isolation, and alienation. These changes, in turn, affect the development and spread of medications and narcotics among the populace.
Introduction -- Coffee, or the Serene Delight -- Cigarettes, or Knowledge Is Not Power -- Alcohol, or Commodity Fetishism -- Opiates, or Civilizing the Orient -- Amphetamines, or Inappropriate Perseverance -- Psychotropics, or Diagnostic Creeps and Rational Paranoids -- Psychedelics, or the Dialectic of Control -- Addendum on Peyote -- Addendum on Dissociative Anesthetics -- Cocaine, or Hyperreality -- Marijuana, or Profit Wins in the End -- Conclusion.