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Author Keys, David P

Title Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual / David Patrick Keys and John F. Galliher
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in deviance and social control
SUNY series in deviance and social control.
Contents Origins and overview of the professional life of Alfred Ray Lindesmith -- Lindesmith's experience in the Chicago School of Sociology: the influence of Herbert Blum ... -- A revised theory of opiate addiction and the writing of the book Opiate addiction -- Contributions to psychotherapy, social psychology, and symbolic interaction -- Lindesmith versus Anslinger: efforts to reform national drug policy, 1937-1950 and the film Drug addict -- Writing The addict and the law: a statement of policy -- Public discourse: Lindesmith in the role of humanist citizen and public intellectual
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991.
SUBJECT Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991 fast
Lindesmith, Alfred Ray. swd
Subject Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography
Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
Opium abuse.
Drug legalization -- United States
Opioid abuse.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
Drug and Narcotic Control
Opioid-Related Disorders
Psychology, Social
Sociology
social psychology.
sociology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Sociology
Social psychology
Opioid abuse
Drug legalization
Opium abuse
Social psychologists
Sociologists
Drogenpolitik
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Galliher, John F
ISBN 0585317976
9780585317977
9780791443941
0791443949