War and Drugs: The Role of Military Conflict in the Development of Substance Abuse

ISBN-13: 9781594518959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 198 str.

Dessa K. Bergen-Cico

Opis

War and Drugs explores the relationship between military incursions and substance use and abuse throughout history. For centuries, drugs have been used to weaken enemies, stimulate troops to fight, and quell post-war trauma. They have also served as a source of funding for clandestine military and paramilitary activity. In addition to offering detailed geopolitical perspectives, this book explores the intergenerational trauma that follows military conflict and the rising tide of substance abuse among veterans, especially from the Vietnam and Iraq-Afghan eras. Addiction specialist Bergen-Cico raises important questions about the past and challenges us to consider new approaches in the future to this longest of US wars.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgments One Introduction: The Escalation of War and Drugs in Relation to One Another Two Drugs and war Three The Opium Wars Four Drugs and the U.S. Civil War Five French Connections and the Corsican Brothers Six High Hitler: World War II Seven The Cold War Was Hot for the Drug Trade Eight Project Bluebird and MK-ULTRA Nine The Vietnam War and the Blowback at Home Ten Mexico's Drug War Eleven Drugs and the Afghan Wars Twelve PTSD and Substance Abuse Among Veterans of the Afghan and Iraq Wars Thirteen Conclusion: The Seven-Generations Cost of War Notes Index About the Author

O autorze

Authored by Bergen-Cico, Dessa K.