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In Our Right To Drugs, Thomas Szasz Shows That Our Present Drug War Started At The Beginning Of This Century, When The U.s. Government First Assumed The Task Of Protecting People From Patent Medicines. By The End Of World War I, However, The Free Market In Drugs Was But A Dim Memory, If That. Instead Of Dwelling On The Familiar Impracticality Or Unfairness Of Our Drug Laws, Szasz Demonstrates The Deleterious Effects Of Prescription Laws, Which Place People Under Lifelong Medical Tutelage. The Result Is That Most Americans Today Prefer A Coercive And Corrupt Command Drug Economy To A Free Market In Drugs. Szasz Stresses The Consequences Of The Fateful Transformation Of The Central Aim Of U.s.^ Drug Prohibitions From Protecting Us From Being Fooled By Misbranded Drugs To Protecting Us From Harming Ourselves By Self-medication-defined As Drug Abuse. And He Reminds Us That The Choice Between Self-control And State Coercion Applies To All Areas Of Our Lives, Drugs Being But One Of The Theaters In Which This Perennial Play May Be Staged. A Free Society, Szasz Emphasizes, Cannot Endure If Its Citizens Reject The Values Of Self-discipline And Personal Responsibility And If The State Treats

Author

Thomas Stephen Szasz

Publisher

Praeger

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780275942168

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Medicine

Rating

5 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14