TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Philip
TI  - Synthetic panics: the symbolic politics of designer drugs 
SN  - 0585317003
AV  - HV5825 .J46 1999eb
U1  - 363.45/0973 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Drug control
KW  - United States
KW  - Designer drugs
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Drug addiction
KW  - Drug and Narcotic Control
KW  - Designer Drugs
KW  - Substance-Related Disorders
KW  - Lutte antidrogue
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Drogues de confection
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Toxicomanie
KW  - drug abuse
KW  - aat
KW  - drug addiction
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - fast
KW  - Synthetische Droge
KW  - gnd
KW  - Drogenpolitik
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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