Synthetic panics : the symbolic politics of designer drugs /
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 drug...
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Synthetic panics
- Speed kills
- Monsters, the pcp crisis, 1975-1985
- Suppressing ecstasy: the designer drug crisis
- The menace that went away: the ice age, 1989-90
- The cat attack, 1993-94
- Redneck cocaine: the methamphetamine panic of the nineties
- Rave drugs and rape drugs
- The next panic.