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Adelaide Writers’ Week — Keeping It Together: a rational response to drugs

For better or worse, human beings have long been taking drugs, legal and illegal. Why are some drugs outlawed and others embraced? What is the impact of prohibition? A panel that brings together three important perspectives: journalist and author Antony Loewenstein looks at the effect of the US-led War on Drugs in his book Pills, Powder and Smoke. Chris Fleming’s On Drugs documents his own addiction. Mandy Whyte recounts her efforts to save her meth-addicted son in Dancing on a Razor’s Edge.

Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake.

Pills, Powder, and Smoke

Antony Loewenstein

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 21 Aug 2019 Category: Society & culture: general Cover view

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