TY - BOOK AU - Hari,Johann TI - Chasing the scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs SN - 9781620408902 AV - HV5825 .H234 2015 U1 - 363.450973 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury KW - Drug control KW - United States KW - History KW - Drug traffic KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Criminology KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Social Policy KW - Lutte contre la drogue KW - eclas KW - Toxicomanie KW - Trafic de drogue KW - Histoire KW - fast KW - Legalisering av droger KW - sao KW - Drogpolitik KW - historia KW - Narkotikapolitik KW - Narkotikasmuggling KW - Narkotikalagstiftning KW - Drogmissbruk KW - sears KW - gnd KW - Drogenkonsum KW - Drogenpolitik KW - Drug and Narcotic Control KW - history KW - Drug Trafficking KW - Drug Users KW - Substance-Related Disorders KW - Monde KW - Social sciences KW - Political science KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index; The Black Hand -- Sunshine and weaklings -- The barrel of Harry's gun -- The bullet at the birth -- Souls of mischief -- Hard to be Harry -- Mushrooms -- State of shame -- Bart Simpson and the Angel of Juarez -- Marisela's long march -- The grieving mongoose -- Terminal city -- Batman's bad call -- The drug addicts' uprising -- Snowfall and strengthening -- The Spirit of '74 -- The man in the well -- High noon -- Conclusion: If you are alone N2 - January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war -- to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs -- from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming ER -