The War on Drugs III: The Continuing Saga of the Mysteries and Miseries of Intoxication, Addiction, Crime, and Public Policy Book

1. The Mysteries and Miseries of Intoxication and Addiction.
Roots, Berries, and Grains: Some Thoughts on Cocktails and Other Libations in Stone Age Culture.
Word Games, Toad Slime, and the FDA: Some Trivial Distinctions Between Drug “Use,” Drug “Misuse,” and Drug “Abuse.”
Answering the Enigmatic Question: Is It Drug “Addiction”or Drug “Dependence?”
How Many Abusers are There?
Postscript.

I. DRUG FADS, FASHIONS, AND EPIDEMICS: SOME PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF “GETTING HIGH” IN AMERICA.

2. From Dover's Powder to the Evil Weed of the Fields: The Early History of Drug-Taking in the United States.
Thomas Dover, Robinson Crusoe, and the Great American Medicine Show.
Triplex Liver Pills, French Wine Coca, and the Introduction of Cocaine to the United States.
The Peculiar Legacy of Bayer Laboratories.
Rock Oil, the “Red Clause,” and the Emergence of Anti-Drug Legislation.
Snow Parties, German War Propaganda, and the Rise of the Criminal “Addict.”
Marijuana: The Evil Weed of the Fields and River Beds and Roadsides.
Postscript.

3. “Everybody Smokes Dope” : Drug-Taking in Post World War II America.
The Road to H.
“Timothy Leary's Dead . . . .”
From Black Beauty to King Kong.
The Many Lives of Captain Quaalude.
“Everybody Smokes Dope.”
Tic, Rocket Fuel, and the Specter of the Living Dead.
Postscript.

4. Binge Drinking, Raves, and Mickey Finn:Drugs and the Youth Culture at the Turn of the 21st Century.
Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville.
Club Cultures and “Club Drugs.”
The Changing Life of Mickey Finn: “Date Rape” Drugs — Yesterday and Today.
Brews and Blends Both Familiar and Strange: The Adulteration of Party Drugs.
Postscript.

II. SHIT, SMACK, AND SUPERFLY: “THE MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES ON EARTH.”

5. China White and Mexican Black: Some Comments on the Nature and Use of Heroin and Other “Narcotics.”
What, Indeed, ARE “Narcotic” Drugs?
Heroin: “The Most Dangerous Substance on Earth.”
H is for Heaven, H is for Hell, H is for Heroin.
Gambling with Death.
The Heroin Epidemics.
Heroin “Chic” and the “Gen-X” Junkie.
Postscript.

6. Cocaine, Crack, and Other Costumes for “Mama Coca.”
Cocaine: “The Most Dangerous Substance on Earth.”
“Welcome to the Hotel California . . . .”
Coca Paste and Hurricane Crack.
Sketches from the Crack Hustle.
The “Crack Baby” Myth.
Postscript.

III. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG-TAKING AND DRUG-SEEKING.

7. Legends of the Living Dead: Unraveling the Drugs/Crime Connection.
Religious Alchemy, the Saga of D.B. Cooper, and the Genesis of the Drug Myths.
The Tale of a Terrible Vice.
Fables and Parables of the “Living Dead.”
Drugs, Sex, and Rock 'N' Roll.
The Riddle of the Sphinx.
America's First “War on Drugs.”
Heroin, Cocaine, and Crime in the Streets.
The Drugs/Violence Connection.
Postscript.

8. Mainlining Death: Probing the AIDS/Drugs Connection.
AIDS: A Strange Disease of Uncertain Origins.
Mainlining Death.
Viral Hepatitis and Injection Drug Use.
The Dilemmas of Drugs, Sex, HCV, and HIV/AIDS.
Postscript.

IV. STRATEGIES IN THE WAR ON DRUGS.

9. The Great Drug War: Policies and Programs to Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.
Supply Reduction Strategies.
Demand Reduction Strategies.
Postscript.

10. The Great Drug Debate: The War on American Drug Policy.
Legalization of Drugs: The Professed Benefits.
Unresolved Issues in the Quest for a Legalized Drug Market.
The Public Health and Behavioral Consequences Argument.
The Crime and “Enslavement” Argument.
The Drugs/Violence Argument.
The Expanded Market Argument.
Sophism, Legalization, and Illicit Drug Use.
Prohibition Versus Regulation.
Postscript: What Harm is Reduction?
Epilogue: War is not the Answer.
Appendix I: General Drug Terms and Concepts.
Appendix II: Scheduling Provisions of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
Name Index.
Subject Index.