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Uncle Sam the pusherman : the story of how the U.S. people got hooked on morphine, heroin & methadone.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 11 no 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug addiction--United States.
- Drug addiction.
- Drug control--United States.
- Drug control.
- Heroin abuse--United States.
- Heroin abuse.
- Morphine abuse--United States.
- Morphine abuse.
- Methadone abuse--United States.
- Methadone abuse.
- Soldiers--Drug use--United States.
- Soldiers.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)--Maps.
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia).
- Drug abuse.
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Drug and Narcotic Control.
- United States.
- drug abuse.
- drug addiction.
- Soldiers--Drug use.
- Asia--Golden Triangle.
- Medical Subjects:
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Drug and Narcotic Control.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Alternative publications.
- Maps.
- Maps
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 19 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 26 cm
- Distribution:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Distributed by Drug Research Project
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [approximately 1974]
- Summary:
- "The history of narcotics addiction in America is a history that you won't find in any textbooks. It is a history of the pain, greed, brutality, and corruption that has gone hand in hand wtih the making of the United States into the largest and most powerful military and economic empire the world has ever known."--Page 1.
- Contents:
- Contents (from section titles) The government steps in to solve the drug problem
- Organized crime takes over the drug trade
- The cold war: making the world safe for democracy and dope peddlers
- Dope and dollars in Southeast Asia
- G.I. Junkies: casualities of the Southeast Asia war
- Heroin on the home front
- History repeated: methadone as a cure for heroin addiction
- How methadone became the federal fix
- The methadone programs: a preview of 1984
- The new generation of methadone junkies
- The solution to drug addiction is not more addiction.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Covers included in pagination.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 21).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Fugitive Materials.
- OCLC:
- 50319855
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