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Speed-speed-speedfreak : a fast history of amphetamine / by Mick Farren.

Title
Speed-speed-speedfreak : a fast history of amphetamine / by Mick Farren.
Author
Farren, Mick.
Publication
Port Townsend, Wash. : Feral House, c2010.

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Description
208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Traces the criminal and cultural use of amphetamine and its unholy growth through each new and destructive cycle"--Cover p. [4].
Subject
  • Amphetamine abuse
  • Amphetamines > Popular works
  • Amphetamine-Related Disorders
Genre/Form
Popular works
Note
  • "The book is shaped in homage to the Dextroamphetamine capsule"--Cover p. [4].
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A drug in search of a function -- Speed for the super soldier -- Speed for the leader -- Methedrine melodies -- "Speek kills" -- Speed of angels -- Sex, science, and a line of speed -- The DIY fast track -- Enter the Amezcua brothers -- The epidemics -- The third world alternative -- The pornography of information -- The shape of speed to come.
ISBN
  • 9781932595826 (pbk.) :
  • 1932595821 (pbk.) :
OCLC
  • 654466944
  • SCSB-10838446
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library