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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong
Description: On the American drug binge.
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Forget all the stereotypes – drug use is no longer confined to particular subcultures. US Americans are taking world-historic levels of drugs. Benjamin Fong tells us about his new book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which covers everything from morphine to mushrooms, SSRIs to speed, caffeine to cocaine.Â
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Ultimately, is all this drug-taking about reckless abandon, or about control?
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Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, Benjamin...