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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David F Musto; Pamela Korsmeyer; Thomas W Maulucci |
| ISBN: | 0865693099 9780865693098 0865693242 9780865693241 |
| OCLC Number: | 48100414 |
| Description: | xvii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The origins of heroin / David F. Musto -- pt. 1. The first sixty years -- The roads to H : the emergence of the American heroin complex, 1898-1956 / David T. Courtwright -- pt. 2. Inside policymaking -- One hundred years of heroics / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Heroin politics and policy under president Nixon / Egil Krogh, Jr. -- One bite of the apple : establishing the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention / Jerome H. Jaffe -- Is drug addiction a brain disease? / Sally Satel -- pt. 3. The urban epidemic -- Heroin addiction in the nation's capital, 1966-1973 / Robert L. DuPont -- Generational trends in heroin use and injection in New York City / Bruce D. Johnson and Andrew Golub -- pt. 4. Treatment options -- Trick or treat? A century of American responses to heroin addiction / William L. White -- Methadone : the drug, the treatment, the controversy / Herbert D. Kleber -- Heroin maintenance : is a U.S. experiment needed? / Peter Reuter and Robert MacCoun -- From heroin addiction to opioid maintenance : problem or cure? Or, all opioid agonists are not the same / Richard S. Schottenfeld -- pt. 5. Political and cultural complications -- From British India to the Taliban : lessons from the history of the heroin market / Kathryn Meyer -- Hip to be high : heroin and popular culture in the twentieth century / Jill Jones. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr. |
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