Drugs and politics

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Early History of Narcotics Use and Narcotics Legislation in the United States -- 2 Bureaucracy and Morality: An Organizational Perspective on a Moral Crusade -- 3 The Marihuana Tax Act -- 4 On Capturing an Opium King: The Politics of Law Sik Han's Arrest -- 5 The Drug Addict as a Folk Devil -- 6 The Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy -- 7 Methadone's Rise and Fall -- 8 The Politics of Drugs -- 9 Knowledge, Power, and Drug Effects -- 10 Playing a Cold Game: Phases of a Ghetto Career -- 11 Street Status and Drug Use -- 12 Drug Pushers: A Collective Portrait -- 13 The Culture of Civility -- 14 Scapegoating "Military Addicts": The Helping Hand Strikes Again -- 15 The Politics of Drugs -- 16 Cannabis, Alcohol, and the Management of Intoxication -- 17 Invitational Edges of Corruption: Some Consequences of Narcotic Law Enforcement -- Contributors -- Index