08-Feb-2011
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From the assault by drug warriors, fear-mongers, and control freaks on students’ privacy rights, kids are under attack. Part One lays a foundation for understanding current search policies in schools by describing and critiquing their legal precedents as well as the socio-cultural climate.
Part Two examines five types of searches conducted at schools across America.
Part Three focuses on the impact of school search policies. The final chapter hypothesizes why, in light of all the negatives, we are increasingly using intrusive policies in schools.
Laura Finley is a former high school social studies teacher. She teaches and writes about social justice issues.
Peter Finley is a former high school teacher and coach. He is now a doctoral candidate in sport administration.
Piss Off!: How Drug Testing and Other Privacy Violations are Alienating America’s Youth
22-Jan-2010
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From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cure for drug addiction. Although it began as a bold and ambitious public works project, and became famous as a rehabilitation center frequented by great jazz musicians among others, the Farm was shut down forty years after it opened amid scandal over its drug-testing program, which involved experiments where inmates were being used as human guinea pigs and rewarded with heroin and cocaine for their efforts.
Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors, and guards that trace the Farm’s noble rise and tumultuous fall, revealing the compelling story of what really happened inside the prison walls.
The Narcotic Farm is a beautiful, fascinating book that takes readers deep into a forgotten American institution. The pictures are remarkable and the story brings an important moment in history vividly to life. It’s a stunning work.
Dave Isay, founder of
StoryCorps
The story of America’s long and deep affair with addictive drugs is incomplete without mention of the legendary federal narcotic hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Narcotic Farm tells this story well, and in addition provides a wealth of revealing photographs and documents that speak volumes on what it was like to be a junkie in the mid-twentieth century.
Luc Sante, author of
Low Life and
Evidence
The Narcotic Farm works its magic by recapturing, in images and words, the lost world of “Narco,” the sprawling federal prison-hospital for drug addicts in Lexington, Kentucky. It’s the details that get you, from the disheveled misery of withdrawal to the uninhibited joy of performing in the house jazz band.
David Courtwright, author of
Dark Paradise, Addicts Who Survived, and
Forces of Habit
Everyone who cares about addiction and recovery in this country should look at these pictures and read this text.
Susan Cheever, author of
My Name is Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous and
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
“The ‘Narco,’ with its combination of prison and hospital, drug experimentation and drug cure, total institution and farm, exemplified the contradictions of American drug policy. The authors are to be commended for their accessible text and high-quality images that vividly convey the history of the Narcotics Farm from the high hopes of its birth to its evolution into a “fraternity for drug addicts.”–Eric Schneider – “Smack: Heroin and the American City,” University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
23-Nov-2009
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I was watching CNN a couple months ago and they interviewed a couple people on the legalization of certain drugs. Some drugs should remain illegal for obvious reasons. Like crack,crystal methamphetamine, and a few off those off-drugs like LSD and angel dust that you don’t really hear about.
I don’t know which drugs are worst, heroine, crack or coke.
But marijuana, and 1 or 2 of the other drugs should be legalized. Why and how?
How: Tobacco should be replaced with marijuana for one. You’d have to be a dumb *** not to realize that they’re both addictive drugs, (tobacco gives you a certain high sort of) and marijuana only does minor to minorly mild memory reduction as far as we know. I also read that marijuana doesn’t give cancer. Oh yeah and a probably 2 or 3% chance of testicular cancer in people under the age of lets say 18 or 19. You can still function pretty much normally if you’re stoned unlike alcohol. You’ll just be about 30% slower.
That said, any tobacco company should switch to marijuana and start advertising it like its alcohol. All risks must be extremely clear on any and all cigarette cartons and packs.
As for the other drugs, I believe the best bet for those would be government run shops. Yes, the U.S government selling you drugs. I see it like this. You go to the government-run store.
You’ll have your official drug user card on you. You order some drugs, and they scan your card to see when you last made a purchase. If it’s too soon to buy more drugs, meaning they can’t sell you enough often enough to get you too addicted. THEN whenever someone doesn’t want to be a drug addict anymore, they go to their local government run drug rehab clinic. Note that this must be affordable and effective to the mid 3rd class or else a lot of poor people will be addicted to drugs. They sign up, do drug tests weekly, if they fail 3 drug tests, they go to an addict’s jail.
Which is jail, except instead of killers and rapists you have drug addicts that failed the clinics.
Why: If it were like this, not only would the U.S government get the taxes they so greedily want and need to keep America running, we’d have efficient drug control. Well… a lot more efficient than what we have now.
I don’t see any faults. Of course there will be the criminals that try to find loopholes or find some way to try to break the law, but hey. Nothing’s perfect.
One more thing. No, the president can’t toke up on marijuana whenever he wants just because it’s legal. The consequences would be the same going to work or driving drunk.
I believe that if people have the legal option of marijuana, alcohol and cocaine/heroine/crack whichever of those 3 drugs are the least deadly, most people wouldn’t choose the really deadly illegal drugs when they can have a legal alternative that is almost as powerful.
1. marijuana 2. alcohol 3. cocaine
With these 3 drugs and an efficient rehab system America could just maybe solve the drug problem and gain billions of dollars in the process.
If anyone sees faults, please let me know. I want to perfect this idea.
