Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs

by Philip Jenkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814742440
• ISBN13: 9780814742440
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"