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| Affirmative Inaction | ||||||||||||||
| We bend the rules so that more Blacks and Latinos can get into prestigious colleges; here's a proposal to bend other rules so that fewer Blacks and Latinos go to prison for drug-law offenses. | ||||||||||||||
| Barefoot Epidemiologist | ||||||||||||||
| How an amateur could, in two weeks, do a good estimation of the size of a city's drug-abusing population. | ||||||||||||||
| A Brief History of the After Sobriety Movement | ||||||||||||||
| Speculation upon a world where "sobriety" is a valuable commodity on the free market, exchangeable for "life therapy" vouchers. | ||||||||||||||
| The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Sugar | ||||||||||||||
| An imaginary press release in 2013, when America's three big legal drugs finally become taxed in proportion to the damages they do. | ||||||||||||||
| Cocaine and Corn Syrup | ||||||||||||||
| A hundred years ago, the Feds made the Coca-Cola company remove a harmful substance- cocaine- from their drinks. Will the Feds now do the same for an even more harmful substance? | ||||||||||||||
| Consuming Passions | ||||||||||||||
| Eight psychoactive substances- four of them legal and four illegal- dominate the American scene. Here's a summary of what they cost, what damage they do, and what they'd look like on your kitchen table. | ||||||||||||||
| Crack Abuse Study | ||||||||||||||
| Results of research we conducted at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic in 1991-92. | ||||||||||||||
| Crack Abuse: What Is to be Done? | ||||||||||||||
| A distillation of the best ideas of a staff that worked on the subject for two years. | ||||||||||||||
| The Cultural Evolution of Drug Treatment Programs | ||||||||||||||
| Drug programs, like societies, evolve: from Heroic origins, through the Classical and Imperial epochs, finally ending in Decadence. | ||||||||||||||
| Drug Abuse and Public Policy Failures | ||||||||||||||
| Does drug abuse treatment do any good? Have we been "too little, too late" in fighting the speed epidemic? What fundamental truths about substance use are our politicians blind to? | ||||||||||||||
| The Ethanol Gardens: A Proposal for Alcohol Maintenance | ||||||||||||||
| This essay suggests that public inebriation would be less noxious if cities set aside overnight camping grounds where booze can be bought cheaply. | ||||||||||||||
| A General Theory of Drug Abuse Policy | ||||||||||||||
| America has three strategies for addressing drug abuse. They struggle with one another, but none can prevail; the result is a perpetual, expensive, and frustrating stalemate. | ||||||||||||||
| Jerks- A Media Campaign | ||||||||||||||
| Hiring Madison Avenue to make America believe: "Tweaker equals jerk". | ||||||||||||||
| Leshner Letter | ||||||||||||||
| Reminding America's drug czar that US policies have not worked, and isn't it time to consider legalization? | ||||||||||||||
| Magnum Opus: Reflections on the Bicameral Mind | ||||||||||||||
| A paean to psychotropic drugs and altered states of consciousness; I still enjoy the same glimpses of Paradise that energized this 1968 essay, but I would certainly modify much of its social science... | ||||||||||||||
| Patriotic Ethanol | ||||||||||||||
| The real cost of vodka is about one cent per shot. So let's create a proud American brand, drive out the competition, and put the profits to a good cause. | ||||||||||||||
| Quartet for Drugs of Our Time | ||||||||||||||
| These are program notes for a musical composition which evokes the interplay of tobacco, speed, heroin, and cocaine- each with its own "voice"- in the postwar San Francisco scene. | ||||||||||||||
| Quartet Notes | ||||||||||||||
| Notes for a brief synthesizer quartet , with the "voices" representing the ebb and flow of heroin, cocaine, speed, and tobacco over the last 50 years. (The quartet was commissioned from Don Seaver, and first performed in December 1995.) | ||||||||||||||
| A Reverie on "Cultural Buffers" | ||||||||||||||
| A fanciful world in which cocaine is a weak, legal, everyday drug, but caffeine is superstrong, illicit, and dangerous. | ||||||||||||||
| A Short History of the Conquest of the Crack Epidemic | ||||||||||||||
| A fantasy that coca-leaf tea -- weak, legal, and regulated -- could squeeze "crack" out of the market. | ||||||||||||||
| Testimony about "Speed" | ||||||||||||||
| Recommendations (November 1996) to San Francisco on how to approach "speed" abuse and HIV prevention. | ||||||||||||||
| Thirteen Reasons Why Heroin is Good for America | ||||||||||||||
| The "fix is in" as regards American culture and opiate drugs: they're made for each other. | ||||||||||||||
| Toward a General Theory of Public Policy on Drug Abuse | ||||||||||||||
| This General Theory argues that, after Socialists, Libertarians, and Fascists fight one another to exhaustion, Laissez Faire will carry the day. | ||||||||||||||
| X at the Crossroads | ||||||||||||||
| Specultations on the future of MDMA. | ||||||||||||||
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