This is a book about drugs in America that isn’t just, “legalize it”. It gets into how class has been the dividing line between drugs that were considered harmless/licit vs dangerous/illicit. It also spends a lot of time on the root causes of drug use, the ways that life in modern capitalism has made us use drugs more and in worse ways. It also gets into the ways that the west has controlled both licit and illicit drug flows throughout the world.

I really enjoyed it. If anyone wants the ebook, I have a drm-free copy to share, pm me.

    • Hive [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have seen people blasting cigarettes in china and drinking alcohol in china some of the most addiction substances we have normalized despite being worse then other elicit substances, also pretty western if you ask me, if china was better then the west they would be treating be treating drug users different on the social system That means medical personal not police. The opium wars are over and their people have begun the long process to generational recovery. This being said they still lock people up for drug offenses like the united states they monitor their
      bank accounts and have the entire process handled by the police but called a medical problem, they can get in some provinces cut off from medicaid and basically Chinese social security. Just read the whole thing.

      The right to health is also enshrined in the obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[68] As a party to the treaty, China should ensure the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of health services, as well as ensure that services are provided in a nondiscriminatory manner, especially for marginalized groups.[69]

      While the 2008 Anti-Drug Law is progressive in that it recognizes individuals who use drugs as patients and calls for treatment, in practice China’s drug treatment system operates as a system of monitoring and punishment.[70] It does not operationally acknowledge drug use as a public health issue that requires evidence-based, community supported long-term treatment. In the current treatment regime, detection of a relapse leads to harsher restrictions on personal rights and freedoms, without meaningfully addressing the right to health.[71] China suffers from a severe lack of specialized drug treatment resources and a reliance on ineffective detoxification approaches dominated by restrictions on personal freedom.[72]

      China’s punitive approach to drug dependency treatment also affects the ability of individuals who use drugs to address other health problems. For example, many of China’s current national and local laws and regulations exclude persons who use drugs from occupational injury insurance and medical insurance.[73] Moreover, some local governments, such as in the cities of Nanping, Lanzhou, Urumqi, and Liuzhou, have enacted legislation that excludes medical expenses incurred as a result of drug use from the scope of urban and rural medical assistance.[74] These exclusions raise serious concerns about violations of the obligation to provide nondiscriminatory health services.

      Not everything liberals say is cold-war propagand, a lot of it is but we need to be sober minded about these sort of things socialist projects get held to the highest degree of scrutiny The HHR Journal is published out of brown university. The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing https://www.hhrjournal.org/2022/06/no-exit-chinas-state-surveillance-over-people-who-use-drugs/