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This is a really unusual book - VANESSA FELT, BBC LONDON 2015 book by Johann Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs cover the British edition ofauthorJohann HariCountryUnited KingdomUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSubjectDrug control, drug traffickingGenreNonfictionPublisherBloomsburyPublication date15 January 2015. January 20, 2015 (USA) Media typePrint (Hardback)Pages389 pagesISBN978-1-62040-890-2OCLC88181825LC ClassHV5825.H234 Chasing the Scream: The First Days of the War Drugs on - is a book by English writer and journalist Johann exploring the history and impact of drug crime, known collectively as the War on Drugs. The book was published simultaneously in the UK and the US in January 2015. Background and summary Additional information: Drug Prohibition In January 2012 announced on his website that he was writing his first book, Research on the War on Drugs. The book's release coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Harrison Drug Tax Act in the United States, which became the world's first drug control legislation when it was enacted in December 1914. In The Pursuit of a Scream, he writes that two global wars began in 1914: the Four-Year World War, and the war on drugs that continues. In the introduction to the book, he writes that one of his first memories was that he tried and failed to wake up a relative from the drug slump and that he always felt strangely attracted to drug addicts and recovering addicts - they feel like my tribe, my group, my people. He also discusses his history of abuse of anti-cancer drugs, a class of prescription drugs sometimes taken by people without illness in order to stay alert. He doubts whether the addict is addicted or not, and decides to seek answers to the questions he has. Why did the war on drugs begin and why does it continue? Why can some people take drugs without any problems while others can't? What is really causing addiction? What happens if you choose a radically different policy? writes him, who spent the next three years searching for answers, traveling to nine countries (the UNITED States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Uruguay and Vietnam). He profiles early figures in the war on drugs as jazz musician Billie Holiday, a longtime heroin addict; racketeer Arnold Rothstein, an early drug dealer; and Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Drugs (who himself had a daily habit of morphine). He also interviews drug addicts, dealers, police and legislators today, as well as scientists, addiction specialists and drug reform Danny Kushlik and Steve Rolls, as well as Joan Gulao, a doctor who helped lead The Drug Policy of Portugal. One of his interlocutors is Bruce K. Alexander, a researcher of the Rat Park drug experiment, which was conducted in the 1970s. Alexander's hypothesis is that the drugs themselves do not cause dependence, which in many respects contrasts with modern popular ideas about drugs and drug addiction. writes: Many of our most basic assumptions on this subject are wrong. Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we were told it is. The war on drugs is not something our politicians have been selling for a hundred years and claiming. The source of the documentation of the Chasing the Scream introductory page states that the audio files of all quotes from the interview are available online on the official website of the book. The website says that the book shows more than 400 quotes, which says: To be as transparent as possible, they are posted on this site - since you are reading the book, you can listen to the voices of the people in it, as they tell their stories for themselves. The book also contains 60 pages of explanatory notes about sources and interviews. The website includes a section on questions and fixes, with a note from asking readers to submit any factual errors in the book that will be corrected for future editions and for writing. This section also includes several transcription errors from recorded interviews that were not seen before after publication; for example, a quote from Bruce K. Alexander saying, ... learning to deal with the modern era was incorrectly transcribed and printed in a book as ... learn to live with the modern era. Author and anti-plagiarism campaigner Jeremy Dance blamed inaccuracies in some of his quotes, claiming he twisted the truth here because it made his narrative cleaner. Book reception Critical response Chasing the Scream received mostly positive reviews from critics and journalists. The Boston Globe's Kate Tuttle called it a passionate, timely book and that by reading stories about subjects of interviews, including drug addicts, drug dealers, scientists and politicians, their combined testimony is a strong indication that the drug ban may have generated as much crime, violence and heartache as drug use has ever done. Reviewer Nick Romeo of The Christian Science Monitor wrote a long synopsis about Chasing the Scream, analyzing the presentation of a book on the history of drug crime, its racial aspects, and the scientific evidence surrounding addiction. Romeo wrote of Hari: His reporting is balanced and comprehensive; he interviews police and prisoners, drug addicts and traffickers, politicians and activists. It also delves into various historical periods, as is the case about the costs and benefits of the war on drugs. His book should be a must-read for those involved in the war on drugs, and a look at the national budget shows that anyone who pays taxes is involved in the war on drugs. Ed Woolliami called the book a righteous attack and a long-awaited story about the war on drugs, which imprisons millions and persecutes more. He was critical of the fact that the book omitted two crucial aspects of the situation: the first was how the war was actually waged against drug addicts, not those who benefited financially from drugs, and the second was about the details of how drug legalization would work in practice. Vulliamy concluded that the omission of these aspects does not detract from the argument of the book, or the righteous movement of which Hari will be an estimable representative. In his review for The Guardian, John Harris praised parts of the book but was generally negative. He wrote that while the work is a powerful contribution to an urgent debate about drug policy, it uses Gausch's journalistic equivalent of the narrative voice found in Mills and Boone novels. Harris also asked why only 52 words were printed from an interview with Dr. Robert Dupont, the first director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse and a keynote speaker at the World Drug Federation conference. Harris also acknowledged that past recordings challenged reviewers and made him more skeptical of things like DuPont's interview, writing, While it would be nice to postpone the events of 2011 and allow him to start over, his misdeeds will inevitably color your book experience. Hugo Rifkind wrote in his review for The Times that it is tempting, albeit petty, to read In pursuit of a cry less as a book and more as an act of rehabilitation.