Dark Paradise : : A History of Opiate Addiction in America /

Dark Paradise : : A History of Opiate Addiction in America / / David T. Courtwright.

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In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often wi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Courtwright, David T.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface, 2001
  • A Note on Terminology and Spelling
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Extent of Opiate Addiction
  • 2 Addiction to Opium and Morphine
  • 3 Addiction to Smoking Opium
  • 4 Addiction to Heroin
  • 5 The Transformation of the Opiate Addict
  • 6 Heroin in Postwar America
  • 7 The Drug Wars
  • Appendix: Addiction Rate and City Size
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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