Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman

Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman. Ingrid Walker interviews Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In her interview with sociology and legal studies scholar Craig Reinarman, Ingrid Walker asks why, in an American culture that exalts in the pleasures of food and drink, we struggle to talk about other intoxicating pleasures. Reinarman posits that to explore the factors that “make our culture uniquely vulnerable to fears of altered states of consciousness,” we need credible models that situate drug use as a normalized practice rather than a deviant behavior