Drugging the Poor

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ISBN: 9781577664949 | 1577664949
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Copyright: 8/30/2007

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The global dual drug industry and drugging the poor	p. 1
Illegal and legal drug use in America	p. 2
Theoretical perspective : critical medical anthropology	p. 5
Drugs as commodities	p. 6
Blurry boundaries between legal and illegal	p. 7
Drugs and the emergent global social order	p. 10
Dual wars : for and against drugs	p. 20
The health effects of psychotropic drugs	p. 21
The nature of licit and illicit drug capitalism	p. 25
One economy, two sectors	p. 26
Social legitimation	p. 32
Critical junctures : where the twain meet	p. 54
Big tobacco : an aboveground drug industry	p. 61
Birth of the tobacco corporation	p. 62
Seeing like a legal drug corporation	p. 64
Smoke, mirrors, and the tobacco industry	p. 71
Secondhand smoke's contributions to illness	p. 90
Tobacco for the poor	p. 93
Big alcohol : an aboveground drug industry	p. 99
Does big alcohol exist?	p. 100
Several big players	p. 108
Seeing the world as an alcohol corporation	p. 117
Behind the myth making : the social costs of alcohol	p. 120
Selling alcohol to the poor	p. 125
Global pharmaceuticals : belowground features of an aboveground industry	p. 135
A rich man's world : the coming of big pharma	p. 136
Strategies of the modern pharmaceutical industry	p. 148
Overproduction of pharmaceuticals	p. 162
Pharmaceutical street drugs	p. 164
The belowground illicit drug industry	p. 167
Cartels or corporations?	p. 168
The heroin business	p. 172
Cocaine : from cottage industry to global complexity	p. 179
Methamphetamine	p. 188
Ecstasy and club drugs : ups and downs of the market	p. 199
Seeing the world as an illicit drug corporation	p. 205
Drugging the poor	p. 207
Cannabis and class	p. 208
The social life of drugs in the everyday life of the poor	p. 210
Consumption and the high-country blues	p. 216
Illicit and licit drug mixing	p. 220
Modulating moods	p. 224
The role of drugs and the structuring of inequality	p. 229
Social disparity, health inequality, and drugs	p. 233
The people's war on drugs	p. 237
Reflections on resilience	p. 238
An alternative war on drugs	p. 239
Fighting illicit drug companies	p. 247
La Lucha Continua	p. 252
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