Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008], ©2008.

xvi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

New York and the global market -- Jazz joints and junk -- The plague -- The panic over adolescent heroin use -- Ethnicity and the market -- The rising tide -- Dealing with dope -- Heroin suburbanizes -- The war and the war at home -- From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe -- Heroin markets redux.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index.