Mike Agar lives in Northern New Mexico where he consults and writes as Ethknoworks. When he first fled the madness of DC and drug research he felt the urge of a "should," always dangerous, that he should write down the stories of his professional life on drugs in case they might be useful one day to young researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, and drug users. A couple of years ago he broke his no more drugs rule to help out at a conference celebrating 40 years of failure of the War on Drugs in El Paso, http://warondrugsconference.utep.edu/. Mostly though he works on projects that have to do with ecology on the one hand and language and culture on the other. His mental health has improved considerably, as long as he doesn't watch the news.
He is the author of Language Shock and The Professional Stranger, and is currently writing a book for Left Coast Press called Un-Science: The Arrested Development of Human Social Research.