David Forbes teaches Human Services at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York and worked in a school-based drug and alcohol abuse prevention program for nine years.

"David Forbes has given us a book on drugs for the post-Reagan era. Even now there are few treatments of this subject from the point of view of its victims, the addicts. This book is an invaluable source for new social policy and widespread debate in the social sciences." — Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, City University of New York"This is an exciting, innovative, and far-reaching work, not only revealing the shortsightedness of modernist approaches to addiction, but inviting radical departures resonant with the technological era of postmodernism. Most importantly, David Forbes demonstrates the importance of meaning and relatedness in the addiction process." — Kenneth J. Gergen, Swarthmore College

• Prologue Part 1: Introduction 1. Addictive America Part 2: Culture 2. Tripping through the Ruins 3. Control and Denial 4. Everyday Highs Part 3: Prevention 5. The Self 6. School-Basing 7. (Po)Mo' Better Prevention Part 4: Recovery 8. Adult Children/Inner Child Epilogue About the Author Index