High

Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users

Ingrid Walker

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English

University of Washington Press
20 October 2017

Popular culture; Aviation manufacturing industry; Addiction & therapy

Series: High

Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A ""drug-free America"" seems to be a fantasyland that most people don't want to inhabit.

High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies and social norms. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs and criminalize others? Why do we accept the necessity of a doctor-prescribed opiate but not the same thing bought off the street? This divided approach shapes public policy, the justice system, research, social services, and health care. And despite the decades-old war on drugs, drug use remains relatively unchanged.

Ingrid Walker speaks to the silencing effects of both criminalization and medicalization, incorporating first-person narratives to show a wide variety of user experiences with drugs. By challenging current thinking about drugs and users, Walker calls for a next wave of drug policy reform in the United States, beginning with recognizing the full spectrum of drug use practices.

By: Ingrid Walker
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9780295742328
ISBN 10: 0295742321
Series: High
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 20 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Preface: Breaking User Silence Acknowledgments Introduction | We Are All Users 1. Picture a Drug User Jim: Feeding My Family Mordecai: Normal Ella: Time 2. Criminalization: Winning the Crusade but Losing the War Jason: The Little Engine That Could Marcus: Reflections of a Philosopher-Cop on the Drug War 3. Medicalization: Defining Drug Use Lucius: Not What You Think Nadine: Like a Storm Jose: The Cure Brittany: Ask Your Doctor 4. Why We Use: The Pleasure and the Eros of Drugs Bonnie: Evening Smoke Cosmo: What Could Be Mark: It’s Not What, It’s How Kyla: Note from a Socially Integrated Drug User Conclusion Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

Ingrid Walker is associate professor of American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma.