CHASING THE SCREAM: THE FIRST AND LAST DAYS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B66854

English Summary/英文概要： In 2014 it will be one hundred years since the global war on drugs was launched, with the banning of heroin and cocaine in the United States. This book is the story of that war and its consequences, told entirely through the stories of individuals whose lives have been transformed by it. They include a wide, wild range of people – from a teenage transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn searching for her mother, to a nurse in Ciudad Juarez hunting for her missing daughter; from a doctor in Liverpool who witnesses a startling transformation in his patients when he starts to prescribe heroin, to a scientist in Hawaii who is feeding hallucinogens to a mongoose.

This isn’t a book of policy analysis. It’s a book of true stories which between them chart the wider patterns of the drug war, and how to end it. In the process of collating these, Johann Hari discovered that many of the things we take for granted about this subject – such as the very nature of drug use and addiction – are profoundly wrong, and that the alternatives to drug prohibition are working extraordinarily well wherever they are being tried.

In the course of researching and writing CHASING THE SCREAM, Johann Hari conducted more than 250 on-the-record interviews. The result is a great book by a great writer –a passionate, angry and profoundly moving argument that deploys a logic that is both ruthless and irresistibly passionate.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當一百年前毒品開始受到管制禁用起，毒品的戰爭也同時展開，至今依然是世界各國所需面臨的難題。從屢屢登上國際版面的墨西哥毒梟大戰、到奧斯卡影帝菲利普西摩霍夫曼吸毒猝死，甚至近期港台藝人吸毒事件等，毒品究竟應該合法化，還是應該先除罪化？！兩方的爭論各有立場，作者在此書中並未偏袒任一方，他所揭露的驚人事實或發現，將帶給讀者面對這爭議及重要的問題一個全然不同的思維。

Awards/获奖情况：“an incredible book […]one of the most moving I’ve ever read” Sir Elton John

The result is a great book by a great writer –a passionate, angry and profoundly moving argument that deploys a logic that is both ruthless and irresistibly passionate.

Praise for new title, CHASING THE SCREAM: “an incredible book […]one of the most moving I’ve ever read” Sir Elton John

“Newspaper Journalist of the Year”by Amnesty International UK (twice). He was also named “Cultural Commentator of the Year” by the Editorial Intelligence awards, “Gay Journalist of the Year” by Stonewall, and won the Martha Gelhorn Prize)

Wonderful. I couldn’t put it down (Noam Chomsky)

An absolutely stunning book. It will blow your mind, and blow you away (Elton John)

Superb journalism and thrilling story-telling (Naomi Klein)

Intoxicatingly thrilling ... It will change the drug debate forever (Russell Brand)

This book is, forgive the obvious phrase, screamingly addictive. The story it tells, jaw-droppingly horrific, hilarious and incredible, is one everyone should know: that is all true boggles the mind fascinated and infuriates by equal measure. Johann Hari, in brilliant prose, exposes one of the greatest and most harmful scandals of the past hundred years (Stephen Fry)

Johann Hari’s book is the perfect antidote to the war on drugs, one of the most under-discussed moral injustices of our time. It combines rigorous research and deeply human story-telling. It will prompt an urgently-needed debate (Glenn Greenwald)

Johann Hari has written a drug policy reform book like no other. Many have studied, or conducted, the science surrounding the manifold ills of drug prohibition. But Hari puts it all into riveting story form, and humanises it ... It’s a fascinating tale (Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle Police Department)

In this energetic and thought-proving book Johann Hari harnesses the power of personal narrative to reveal the true causes and consequences of the War on Drugs (Professor David Nutt DM FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci, former chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to the UK government)

About the Author/作者介绍： Johann Hari 英國的記者，曾為紐約時報、洛杉磯時報、衛報、世界報等世界各國媒體撰文報導。榮獲兩次英國國際特赦組織頒發年度記者殊榮，及英國報刊年度評論獎。
Johann Hari is still in his early 30s and has already made a huge reputation for himself. He has written for the New York Times, the LA Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Slate, the New Republic and the Nation amongst others. He was a columnist on the Independent for 9 years and was named “Newspaper Journalist of the Year” by Amnesty International UK (twice). He was also named “Cultural Commentator of the Year” by the Editorial Intelligence awards, “Gay Journalist of the Year” by Stonewall, and won the Martha Gelhorn Prize.

Format:HARDCOVER

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：US: Bloomsbury; UK: Bloomsbury; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; France: Slatkine; Germany: Fischer; Hungary: Alomgyar; Iceland: Nyhofn; Italy: Chinaski; Japan: Sakuhinsha; Spain: Paidos; Sweden: Massolit; Poland: Wydawnictwo Czarne; Taiwan: Rye Field Publications

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