Chasing the scream
Subtitle: the first and last days of the war on drugs
By: Johann Hari
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781620408919
Subjects: Drug traffic; History; Drug control
Description: January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war--to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs--from cannabis to crack. Powerful, propulsive, and persuasive, Chasing the Scream is the page-turning story of a century-long mistake, which shows us the way to a more humane future.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mount Rushmore : The Black Hand ; Sunshine and weaklings ; The barrel of Harry's gun ; The bullet at the birth; title: Ghosts : Souls of mischief ; Hard to be Harry ; Mushrooms; title: Angels : State of shame ; Bart Simpson and the Angel of Juarez ; Marisela's long march; title: The Temple : The grieving mongoose ; Terminal city ; Batman's bad call; title: Peace : The drug addicts' uprising ; Snowfall and strengthening ; The Spirit of '74 ; The man in the well ; High noon; title: Conclusion: If you are alone.