| Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market Contributor(s): Szasz, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815603339 ISBN-13: 9780815603337 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: Readers will be surprised and enlightened after reading Thomas Szasz's passionate arguments for the legalization of drugs. Rather than dwelling on the familiar impracticality and unfairness of drug laws, he demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.178 |
| LCCN: 95046515 |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.08" W x 9.04" (0.70 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I the free market in drugs was but a dim memory. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality and unfairness of drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs. |