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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven R Belenko |
| ISBN: | 0313299021 9780313299025 |
| OCLC Number: | 41439673 |
| Description: | xxxiv, 380 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | American drug policy in the 19th century -- Hypodermic injection -- Opiate use -- Opium smoking -- Cocaine -- Heroin -- The early expansion of Federal drug control -- The Harrison Act -- Supreme Court decisions on the Harrison Act -- Overview of state anti-drug laws -- State marijuana laws -- Marijuana policy: the early years -- American drug policy to World War II -- The Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- Drug policy from World War II through the 1950s -- The problems of drug smuggling and teen drug abuse -- The Boggs Act and the Eisenhower Committee -- The medicalization of addiction -- Drug treatment from 1900 to 1930 -- The discovery of methadone -- Drug policy in the 1960s and 1970s -- Civil commitment laws -- LSD in the 1960s -- The Nixon Administration, the Vietnam War, and the 1970 Drug Control Act -- Marijuana policy after the 1960s -- Medical marijuana -- Crack cocaine and drug policy from the 1980s -- Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986 -- The debate over drug legalization. |
| Series Title: | Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues |
| Responsibility: | edited by Steven R. Belenko. |
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