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Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Heroin abuse > Social aspects > United States.
Heroin abuse > Research > United States.
Drug addiction > Research > United States.
Drug addicts > Research > United States.
Drug addicts > Government policy > United States.
Heroin Dependence > history
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
Heroin Dependence > etiology
Research > history
United States
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:080187453X
9780801874536
9780801883835
0801883830
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Heroin addiction and urban vice reform
  • The opportunistic approach
  • The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic
  • Constructing the addict career
  • The junkie as psychopath
  • Healing vision and bureaucratic reality
  • The addict in the social body.

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