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

"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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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