Table of Contents:
  • The drug assemblage
  • A genealogy of drug politics : opiates under the Pahlavi
  • Drugs, revolution, war
  • Reformism and drugs : formal and informal politics of harm reduction
  • Crisis as an institution : the expediency council
  • The anthropological mutation of methamphetamines
  • The maintenance of disorder
  • Drugs and populism : Ahmadinejad and grassroots authoritarianism
  • Epilogue : power, crisis, drugs.