THE ADDICTED SOCIETY: Pleasure-Seeking and Punishment Revisited.
by Fort, Joel M. D
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York:: Grove Press,, (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An update to his classic study, "The Pleasure Seekers" this begins with the question "Does anyone care?" and goes on to describe a society where addictive substances -including legal ones like alcohol, caffeine and nicotine - are increasingly a part of our society. He points out the criminalization of just a small portion of these substances and the application of drug laws hide the real issue - one which is becoming more obvious now that addiction to prescription opiates is becoming one of the pressing health issues in the US. Bibliography, index. 160 pp.
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- Title
- THE ADDICTED SOCIETY: Pleasure-Seeking and Punishment Revisited.
- Author
- Fort, Joel M. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1981)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drugs and drug addiction;
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