TY  - GEN
T1  - Synthetic panics : the symbolic politics of designer drugs
A1  - Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45733635
AB  - America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs, like methamphetamine, PCP, Ecstasy, methcathinone, and rave drugs like ketamine, and GHB. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing "war on drugs." Synthetic Panics traces the history of these anti-drug movements, demonstrating that designer chemicals inspire so much fear not because they are uniquely dangerous, but because they bring into focus deeply rooted public concerns about social and cultural upheaval. Jenkins highlights the role of the mass media in spreading anti-drug hysteria and shows how proponents of the war on drugs use synthetic panics to scapegoat society's "others" and exacerbate racial, class, and intergenerational conflict
OP  - 247
CN  - HV5825 .J46 1999eb
SN  - 0585317003
SN  - 9780585317007
SN  - 9780814769652
SN  - 0814769659
SN  - 0814742432
SN  - 9780814742433
SN  - 0814742440
SN  - 9780814742440
KW  - Drug control : United States.
KW  - Designer drugs : Government policy : United States.
KW  - Drug abuse : United States.
KW  - Designer drugs.
KW  - Drug addiction.
KW  - Drug abuse.
KW  - Drug and Narcotic Control
KW  - Designer Drugs
KW  - Substance-Related Disorders
KW  - United States
KW  - Lutte antidrogue : États-Unis.
KW  - Drogues de confection : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis.
KW  - Toxicomanie : États-Unis.
KW  - Drogues de confection.
KW  - Toxicomanie.
KW  - drug abuse.
KW  - drug addiction.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Infrastructure.
KW  - Drug addiction
KW  - Designer drugs
KW  - Designer drugs : Government policy
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Drug control
KW  - Synthetische Droge
KW  - Drogenpolitik
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -