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Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroin abuse--Social aspects--United States.
- Heroin abuse.
- Heroin abuse--Research--United States.
- Drug addiction--Research--United States.
- Drug addiction.
- Drug addicts--Research--United States.
- Drug addicts.
- Drug addicts--Government policy--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." -- New England Journal of Medicine.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7453-X
- OCLC:
- 654235031
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