Strange trips : science, culture, and the regulation of drugs /
"Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have sharpened the public's awareness of drugs and their regulation. Government, industry,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2019
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Medical heroin's return to Canada : pain, palliative care, and colonial medicine
- Justifying junk : heroin in the American hospice during Reagan's war on drugs
- Laetrile's life cycle after the death of Steve McQueen
- LSD's return from the wilderness
- Civilizing cannabis in Canada
- The "maple peril" and the war on terror : pharmaceutical purchasing in the wake of September
- American obesity and diet pills : dangerous drugs on every corner
- A ketamine conclusion.
