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Drugs and drug policy in America : a documentary history

Author: Steven R Belenko
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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