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16 Contemp. Drug Probs. 535 (1989)
Crack in Context: Politics and Media in the Making of a Drug Scare

handle is hein.journals/condp16 and id is 551 raw text is: Contemporary Drug Problems/Winter 1989 Crack in context: politics and media in the making of a drug scare BY CRAIG REINARMAN AND HARRY G. LEVINE Craig Reinarman (Stevenson College, University of California- Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz 95064) is a sociology professor and the author (with Dan Waldorf and Sheigla Murphy) of the forthcoming book Cocaine Changes (Temple University Press). Harry Gene Levine is a sociology professor at Queens College of the City University of New York and is completing a book on the alcohol question in America that will be published by Basic Books. Two summers ago, began a 1988 New York Times edito- rial, America discovered crack and overdosed on oratory AUTHORS' NOTE: Parts of this article were presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, 1986, and an earlier version of it was published as The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare, in Joel Best, ed., Images and Issues: Current Perspectives on Social Problems (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989). This work was in part inspired by the remarkable number of contemporary drug researchers willing to challenge the current ortho- doxies about drugs, and especially by the courageous and path-breaking work of Alfred Lindesmith, Howard Becker, Edward Brecher, Norman Zinberg, Troy Duster, Arnold Trebach, Lester Grinspoon, James Bakalar, Dan Waldorf, and Andrew Wet. We want to thank Joel Best, John Brown Childs, John Kitsuse, Sheigla Murphy, Ethan Nadelmann, Marsha Rosen- baum, Joseph Schneider, and Dan Waldorf for their comments on earlier versions, which helped sharpen our analysis. @ 1990 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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