In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction epidemic. Over the next five decades, the industry's leaders promised to rehabilitate the casualties of the drug culture even as incarceration rates for drug-related
The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States
β Scribed by Claire Clark
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 336
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Roots of Revolution
Part I. Revolution
1. Selling Synanon
2. Synanon Rashomon
Part II. Co-Optation
3. Selling the Second Generation
4. Left, Right, and Chaos
Part III. Industrialization
5. Selling a Drug-Free America
6. Courts and Markets
Conclusion: The Revolutionβs Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Appendix. Historical Actors
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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