From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on dance culture. This second edition includes accounts of the election campaign of Tony Blair which used an Ecstasy anthem as its musical theme, and the trial and acquittal of a 19-year-old for supplying the drug that killed Leah Betts, and her links to East End gangsters. Drawing on a wealth of background research and original interviews with key figures on both sides of the law, Altered State examines the causes and contexts, ideologies and myths of Ecstasy culture, dramatising its euphoric narrative from peak experience to comedown and aftermath, and shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the century.
"Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts.
Drugs: Your Questions Answered
Starting, Switching, Slowing and Stopping: Report for the Drugs Prevention Initiative Integrated Programme
Drug Trying and Drug Use Across Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study of Young People's Drug Taking in Two Regions of Northern...
Drugs Futures: Changing Patterns of Drug Use Amongst English Youth
Thomas McGuane has made Panama a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose.
Those are tough decisions, especially when they are decisions about drugs. In this book, you'll practice making decisions and explaining your decisions to your friends. Have you ever wanted to "Say No" to drugs, but wondered how to say it?
With the threat so close to home, he must do whatever it takes to protect the girl he’s always loved—no matter the risk. *Due to harsh language, violence, drug use, and sexual situations, this book is recommended for 17+.
A final autobiographical work of note focuses on the life history of Manuel Torres. In many ways, Torres's life story is the same as those that have been presented. A gang member from his early teens during the 1950s, he tried heroin ...
Written with encyclopedic scope, this candid, sober, hard-hitting history of the global drug trade takes the reader back five centuries to the origins of the modern narcotics industry in the Western world. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.