Confronting the Drug Control Establishment
Alfred Lindesmith As a Public Intellectual (S U N Y Series in Deviance and Social Control)
by David Patrick Keys and John F. Galliher
"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a policy." "Throughout his life Lindesmith attempted to utilize his research for the creation of more rational and humane drug control laws. His consistent message was that the addict's self-concept is a central element in human addiction. Lindesmith felt that an overriding influence on an addict's self-concept is a fear of withdrawal, which keeps an addict from seeking treatment and becomes a key driving force in the drug problem."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social psychologists, Drug legalization, Biography, Sociologists, Opium abuse, Psychosociologues, Biographies, Sociologues, Opiomanie, Drogues, Légalisation, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Social Scientists & Psychologists, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Regional Studies, Anthropology, General, Drogenpolitik, Drug and Narcotic Control, Opioid-Related Disorders, Social Psychology, Sociology, Sociology & Social History, Social Sciences, Social Change, Sociologists, biographyPlaces
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Confronting the Drug Control Establishment: Alfred Lindesmith As a Public Intellectual (S U N Y Series in Deviance and Social Control)
January 2000, State University of New York Press
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in English
0791443949 9780791443941
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