Synthetic Panics : : The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs /

Synthetic Panics : : The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs / / Philip Jenkins.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Jenkins, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON USAGE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • ONE. Synthetic Panics
  • TWO. Speed Kills
  • THREE. Monsters
  • FOUR. Suppressing Ecstasy
  • FIVE. The Menace That Went Away
  • SIX. The CAT Attack, 1993–94
  • SEVEN. Redneck Cocaine
  • EIGHT. Rave Drugs and Rape Drugs
  • NINE. The Next Panic
  • ABBREVIATIONS IN NOTES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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