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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedYouth Advisors working for the PROJECT SHARE drug prevention program in New York, NY, are advised to adopt general semantics concepts to be able to cope with the pressures posed by their special work. Among the tactics...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 85, Issue 1)"BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING ... through chemistry" was still the slogan of the DuPont Company when I was in high school. But during my senior year, my problem was living through chemistry class. Chemicals helped me...
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From: The Massachusetts Review[(essay date Autumn 1967) McConnell is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, he places Naked Lunch among the most important literary works concerned with drug addiction.] Although William Burroughs'...
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From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWoe to you, my Princess, when I come, I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward [sic] you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 32, Issue 1)THE SOURCE: "The Myth of the Addicted Army': Drug Use in Vietnam in Historical Perspective" by Jeremy Kuzmarov, in War and Society, Oct. 2007. MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER THE U.S. military pulled out of Saigon, last...
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From:Crazyhorse (Issue 75) Peer-ReviewedAll that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears. --Joan Didion Inspiration Drive 6:30 p.m., September 23, 2006 This is what she told me: the boys had been quiet...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 88, Issue 1)Winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Summer Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, selected by Judge Lia Purpura (Runners-up: Barbara Hurd, "Listening to the Same River Twice: Theme and Variations," and Gary L. McDowell,...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 316, Issue 9541)'Would you like a smoke?' says the dude with the ponytail. 'Well, um, no, um, maybe,' I say, checking the time. 11 a.m. Six hours to go before the speech. Five-and-a-half if you count the radio interview with the...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAt the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. hunger for narcotics and cocaine was so notorious that one leading public-health official declared, "We are the drug-habit nation." (1) Today, Americans lustfully--if...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 40, Issue 4)His wife called herself Possum. He often had nightmares that she was only playing dead. One night, he jolted awake and scanned the room. What's wrong? I asked. Nothing, he said. Just some crazy dreams. Later...
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From:Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article uses a discussion of Baldwin's short story 'Sonny's blues' as a means of exploring reading and approaches to drug literature. It considers the possibility of understanding Baldwin's fictional text as a...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1986 in New South Wales, I was charged with importing one kilo of cannabis resin. I was sentenced when the federal government's 'Drug Offensive' policy was being enforced; this ensured a political climate of 'get...
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From: This “Self” Which Is Not One: Women’s Life Writing in French[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Johnson analyzes how shame pervades the lives of every member of the family in The Lover, arising from such sources as the mother’s ruined farm and the elder brother’s drug...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 98) Peer-ReviewedWhen I was a heroin addict, I used drugs both to achieve what Jacques Lacan has characterized as the "jubilation" one experiences when we seem to coincide with our ego-ideal and to produce a positivity out of my...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines excess and desire via a postmodern feminist reading of the drug writing of twentieth century writers Emily Hahn (1950) and Anna Kavan (1975). The undesirability of the "excess" of drug use...
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From:Tikkun (Vol. 26, Issue 4)While it may be true, as Nicholas Boeving states in this issue of Tikkun , that recovery (the blanket term used to describe twelve-step programs) works for only a minority of addicts, that minority is a rather large...
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From:The Mailer Review (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1992, Mailer's agent, Scott Meredith, was asked if Mailer would participate in "The Rediscover America Project," a Time advertising supplement paid for by the Chrysler Corporation. The idea was that the supplement...
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From: The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation[(excerpt date 1990) In the following excerpt, Stephenson argues that Ginsberg's focus in "Howl" is transcendence in contemporary life.] In the quarter century since its publication by City Lights Books, Allen...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 1)THE SOURCE: "What Can We Learn From the Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs?" by Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes and Alex Stevens, in The British Journal of Criminology, Nov. 2010. DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION IS a...