1. Introduction
2. A Dialectics of Intoxication
3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow
4. From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria
5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza’s “Zurdo” Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy
6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen
7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert
8. Conclusion.