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HIST134 PO - Drugs and Alcohol in Modern World

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2016.
Instructor(s): V. Silverman
Credit: 1

Interpretations of social, political and economic responses around the world to alcohol and other mind-altering drugs from the rum and tobacco trades to crack and the drug wars. Topics include: substances and society, drug markets, the opium wars, prohibition, 1960s drug cultures, wars on drugs, legalization, addiction treatment and recovery. Prerequisite: any history course. (United States; Comparative/Transregional/Thematic (CTT)).



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