“The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity”

CJ Trowbridge Drugs and Society 2020-06-30 Reading Response: Heroin and Social Problems “The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity, like petty drug dealing, prostitution and burglary, to support their habit, and creates an expensive, unproductive revolving door between prison and the street. Methadone, covered by insurance, frees people from this… Continue reading “The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity”

Drugs and Society: Meth

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-26 Drugs and Society Section 9 Reading Response: Meth Frontline: the meth epidemic Meth can be made from cold medicines Cold medicines are a $3b industry Cold medicine industrial complex opposes restrictions on cold medicine Meth can also be made from many other things Common ingredients found anywhere Meth is a major factor… Continue reading Drugs and Society: Meth

Drugs and Society: Cocaine

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-23 Drugs and Society Section 8 – Reading Response: Cocaine coke: the history and truth of cocaine Cocaine is snorted, smoked, or injected Coocaine is addictive Cocaine is often cut with many other things Biopharmacology Reuptake inhibitor for serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine Second most popular drug in the world after marijuana Natural substance found… Continue reading Drugs and Society: Cocaine

Drugs and Society: Opiates

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-16 Drugs and Society Reaction Paper – Section 7 inside the story of america’s 19th century opiate addiction Morphine was seen as a wonder drug which could immediately ameliorate many common symptoms in the short-term Morphine quickly created an addiction epidemic. By 1895, morphine addiction was commonplace in America. Benjamin Franklin took opium… Continue reading Drugs and Society: Opiates

Drugs and Society: Hallucinogens

CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-11 Drugs and Society Reading Response – Section 4 Illegal drugs and how they got that way – hallucinogens All currently illegal drugs were recently legal All cultures have parties, usually including the use of drugs Ecstasy fills an unmet need for connection, empathy, connectedness, and openness between people in a hostile culture,… Continue reading Drugs and Society: Hallucinogens

Drugs and Society: Public Health and Harm Reduction

CJ Trowbridge HED 315 2020-06-04 Reaction Paper: Unit 2 Reducing Drug Related Harm (Powerpoint) Course goal: To give participants the opportunity to examine drug-related harm, and help participants gain a basic understanding of how harm reduction principles, policy and practice work together to address that harm. Harm reduction is an approach that aims to reduce… Continue reading Drugs and Society: Public Health and Harm Reduction

“The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”

The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis. Focusing just on drug use and not on the causes for addiction, I was struck by this line from Ethan Nadelmann’s Ted Talk. It reminded me of arguments made by founding Queer Theorist Michel Foucault in his landmark book Discipline and Punish. Foucault… Continue reading “The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”