Responding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in labeling certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz shows that such policies scapegoat certain drugs as well as the persons who sell, buy, or use them; and 'misleadingly pathologize the "drug problem" by defining disapproved drug use as "disease" and efforts to change the behavior as "treatment." Readers will ...
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Responding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in labeling certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz shows that such policies scapegoat certain drugs as well as the persons who sell, buy, or use them; and 'misleadingly pathologize the "drug problem" by defining disapproved drug use as "disease" and efforts to change the behavior as "treatment." Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
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Very Good/Fine. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Type: Book 1975/Apparent 3rd Edition(1973 is not mentioned, but the 1974 HC is; so this is named as a new 1st edition)/218 Pages/Cover Art By Edward Gorey. This book is about why we let our life be taken away from us by ceremonial chemistry. The book asks the question-why do we use strict laws for those in society for those who choose drugs. Clean and tight pages, no markings in the book. The last owner's name is written in ink three times on the first few front pages and on page 99.
