About the Author

Nicholas L. Parsons is assistant professor of sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA.

Reviews

A must read for anyone seeking to understand how historical, political, societal, and contextual factors that involve stakeholders and claims makers with diverse interests shape and influence perceptions and responses to problems such as methamphetamine. A well-written, detailed account of methamphetamine use in the US. A critical history of meth, written with verve and insight.... It is also a guidebook for deconstructing the making of drug panics in general.... This one needs to be on the bookshelf of any serious drug and drug policy student. Sociologists and other social scientists who investigate drugs from any number of perspectives will find much to appreciate about the book. Sociology undergraduates and graduate students alike will [also] benefit from this vivid illustration of how social problems come and go.