Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers
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Book Details
- Publisher : Syracuse U.P.
- Published : 2003
- Category :
Addictions - Catalogue No : 28251
- ISBN 13 : 9780815607687
- ISBN 10 : 0815607687
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In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as dangerous substances and incarcerating addicts in order to cure them. Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and the persons who use and sell them, and discourage the breaking of drug habits by pathologizing drug use as addiction. Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
About the Author(s)
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life.
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