Anthony Ryan Hatch

Jul 12, 2019

Silent Cells

The Secret Drugging of Captive America

University of Minnesota Press 2019

purchase at bookshop.org Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs. In this interview, Anthony Ryan Hatch discusses the need to think deeply about mass incarceration, pharmaceuticals, and psychiatry. He talks about the role of pharmacies and drug experiments in prison settings, and he underlines the ways that institutions themselves can be addicted to drugs. These are just a few of the topics that he examines in his recent book, Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). And, importantly, he also offers thoughts about recovery from this addiction.
Lucas Richert is an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studies intoxicating substances and the pharmaceutical industry. He also examines the history of mental health.

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