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

Title: Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.
Author: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

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Description

276 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produccd a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities who were caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would eacape.
Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict - or junkie - more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-260) and index.

Contents

1. Heroin Addiction and Urban Vice Reform -- 2. The Opportunistic Approach -- 3. The Technological Fix: The Search for a Nonaddicting Analgesic -- 4. Constructing the Addict Career -- 5. The Junkie as Psychopath -- 6. Healing Vision and Bureaucratic Reality -- 7. The Addict in the Social Body.

ISBN

0801867983 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001001520

OCLC

ocm46463296
SCSB-4271644

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries