Substance abuse in America : a documentary and reference guide / James A. Swartz.

  • Swartz, James, 1955-
Date:
[2012], ©2012
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Publication/Creation

Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Oxford : Greenwood, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xxviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Contents

Reader's guide to related documents and sidebars -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early 20th century: patent medicines, the rise and fall of prohibition, the narcotics farms -- The 1930s through the 1950s : Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of narcotics, Reefer madness, the Kefauver committee, the beat generation -- The 1960s through the mid-1990s : amphetamines and barbiturates, the counterculture, lsd, and Vietnam, the heroin epidemics, cocaine re-emerges, crack-cocaine, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, sentencing disparities -- The mid-1990s to 2011 : medical marijuana, black tar heroin, oxycontin -- Methamphetamine, the Mexican drug war, the war on drugs continues -- Bibliography -- Index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-324) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    FCF.6
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ISBN

  • 9780313353765
  • 031335376X
  • 9780313353772
  • 0313353778