Chasing The Scream
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Author |
: Johann Hari |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2015-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620408902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620408902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chasing the Scream by : Johann Hari
"January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war--to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs - from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming. Powerful, propulsive, and persuasive, Chasing the Scream is the page-turning story of a century-long mistake, which shows us the way to a more humane future"--
Author |
: Johann Hari |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2016-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620408919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620408910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chasing the Scream by : Johann Hari
Revised and Updated The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari’s journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.
Author |
: Milkyway Media |
Publisher |
: Milkyway Media |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 2018-08-31 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Summary of Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream by Milkyway Media by : Milkyway Media
Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream (2015) is a history and evaluation of the war on drugs first launched by the United States in the 1930s. The anti-drug campaign, which began long before Richard Nixon launched the official War on Drugs in 1971, was supposedly meant to put an end to widespread narcotics use in the United States… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.
Author |
: Milkyway Media |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 31 |
Release |
: 2018-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1980520364 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781980520368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Analysis of Johann Hari's Chasing the Scream by Milkyway Media by : Milkyway Media
Johann Hari's Chasing the Scream (2015) is a history and evaluation of the war on drugs first launched by the United States in the 1930s.The anti-drug campaign, which began long before Richard Nixon launched the official War on Drugs in 1971, was supposedly meant to put an end to widespread narcotics use in the United States...Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.
Author |
: Patricia A. Roos |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2024-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781978837041 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1978837046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Surviving Alex by : Patricia A. Roos
In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surving Alex tells her moving story—and outlines the possibilities of a more compassionate and effective approach to addiction treatment. Weaving together a personal narrative and a sociological perspective, Surviving Alex movingly describes how even children from “good families” fall prey to addiction, and recounts the hellish toll it takes on families. Drawing from interviews with Alex’s friends, family members, therapists, teachers, and police officers—as well as files from his stays in hospitals, rehab facilities, and jails—Roos paints a compelling portrait of a young man whose life veered between happiness, anxiety, success, and despair. And as she explores how a punitive system failed her son, she calls for a community of action that would improve care for substance users and reduce addiction, realigning public health policy to address the overdose crisis.
Author |
: Jarrett Zigon |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2018-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520297692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520297695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis A War on People by : Jarrett Zigon
If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti–drug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care.
Author |
: Leslie Jamison |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 539 |
Release |
: 2018-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316259620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316259624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Recovering by : Leslie Jamison
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.
Author |
: Johann Hari |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526634085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526634082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lost Connections by : Johann Hari
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life' ELTON JOHN 'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 'Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG 'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN 'Wonderful' HILLARY CLINTON 'Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' ZOE BALL 'A game-changer' DAVINA MCCALL 'Extraordinary' DR MAX PEMBERTON Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real hope.
Author |
: Russell Crandall |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 521 |
Release |
: 2020-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300240344 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300240341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drugs and Thugs by : Russell Crandall
A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical use of marijuana, and America's shifting foreign policy.
Author |
: Nick Stokes |
Publisher |
: Nick Stokes |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2017-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781973739012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1973739011 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis You Choose by : Nick Stokes
YOU CHOOSE is an (anti)-choose-your-own-adventure. You choose: You hear a scream (or not), and what do you do about it. Nothing or stay in your chair and figure out the who what when why or go out the front door and chase the scream to prevent it or create it or capture it. Within the book are choices and non-choices, choices masquerading as choices, labyrinths, your torture and your self-torture, your authorship, multiple worlds, you becoming someone else, another you, you becoming a series of animals, you becoming us, you becoming death, your repeated death, pizza, your mother, inner ear workings, and other tailings or tails or tales. YOU CHOOSE is literary, speculative, uncertain, an attempt at the universal and many worlds, surreal, magically realistic, immersive, and labyrinthine. YOU CHOOSE is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.