TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Philip
TI  - Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs 
SN  - 9780814742433
AV  - HV5825 .J46 1999eb
U1  - 363.45/0973 21
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Designer drugs
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Drug addiction
KW  - Drug control
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs, like methamphetamine, PCP, Ecstasy, methcathinone, and rave drugs like ketamine, and GHB. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing "war on drugs." Synthetic Panics traces the history of these anti-drug movements, demonstrating that designer chemicals inspire so much fear not because they are uniquely dangerous, but because they bring into focus deeply rooted public concerns about social and cultural upheaval. Jenkins highlights the role of the mass media in spreading anti-drug hysteria and shows how proponents of the war on drugs use synthetic panics to scapegoat society's "others" and exacerbate racial, class, and intergenerational conflict
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ER  -