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Dave Chase
The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call
Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back
Health Rosetta Media, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychology New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network January 22, 2019 Jeremy Corr

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years. In his new book, The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back (Health Rosetta Media, 2018),... Read More

Alexander S. Dawson, “The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs” (U California Press, 2018)

Alexander S. Dawson
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network January 17, 2019 Mark Klobas

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico: though prohibited by law, its use remains permissible in both countries for ceremonial practices in certain religions. As Alexander S. Dawson reveals in The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (University of California Press, 2018),... Read More

Ann Taves, “Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths” (Princeton UP, 2016)

Ann Taves
Revelatory Events
Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Princeton University Press, 2016

New Books in American Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network October 10, 2018 Marshall Poe

I’ve often asked myself this question: “How do religions begin?” I don’t know about you, but I think I would be very, very skeptical if someone told me that they’d had just received a revelation, communicated with some spiritual “higher power,” or had some sort of mystical-though-divinely-inspired experience. Ditto with... Read More

Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)

Stephanie Elizondo Griest
All the Agents and Saints
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
University of North Caroina Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network September 6, 2018 David-James Gonzales

In the United States, contemporary discourse concerning “the border” almost always centers around the country’s southern boundary shared with Mexico. Rarely, in conversations public or private among Americans is there any discussion of the nation’s northern border with Canada. Whatever the reason (ignorance, indifference, or both) all this changes with... Read More

Beth Macy
Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Little, Brown & Company, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Journalism New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network August 21, 2018 Chelsea Jack

“Appalachia was among the first places where the malaise of opioid pills hit the nation in the mid-1990s, ensnaring coal miners, loggers, furniture makers, and their kids.” This is how journalist Beth Macy premises her new book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (Little, Brown, & Company,... Read More