Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

432 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets and he found that there is a startling gap betw...

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