Voices from the Drug Culture Author:Harrison Pope Jr. In creating Voices from the Drug Culture, Harrison Pope, Jr., a summa graduate from Harvard College, now at the Harvard Medical School, combines his training in sociology, psychology, and medicine with his extensive first-hand knowledge of the drug subculture. The voices of the drug users the author knew and studied from the basis of the book's ... more »timeless central hypothesis: young Americans' use of marijuana and LSD can best be understood as a response to the boredom and superficiality they perceive in American life. The author also examines the factors which lead some young people to become enmeshed in the tougher world of speed, barbiturates, and heroin.« less