Michael Agar
Ethknoworks LLC



Dope Double Agent: The Naked Emperor on Drugs

Dope Double Agent is a war on drugs story, one that starts in the 60s and only ends with the last lines of the book. More than this, it is the story of a young Berkeley student--and occasional drug user--who turns into an insider expert in the drug war with a personal agenda to subvert and correct it. He checks in as a heroin patient, works the streets of New York, dips into worlds of PCP and LSD, and seeks the sources of crack, heroin and ecstasy. The delusions of the experts, the public and the politicians amaze him and make him think the double agent job will be easy. Instead it is impossible. He fails, spectacularly so on such hallowed ground as the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. Come behind the scenes and watch the drug policy emperor march along for decades thinking he wears a new suit of clothes.

The book has just been published. The table of contents, preface, and Chapter One can be downloaded from the link on the left side of the home base page.


Selected Works

Nonfiction
Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
Living in a world of linguistic and cultural differences
Dope Double Agent: The Naked Emperor on Drugs
A personal story of decades of work in the substance abuse field, a story of how our ineffective drug policy came to be and stayed in place.
Independents Declared: The Dilemmas of Independent Trucking
The story of the working world of independent truckers in a time of deregulation
Nonfiction, Introductory Text
The Professional Stranger (second edition)
An introduction to ethnography



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