AMERICAN DISEASE - ORIGINS OF NARCOTIC CONTROL

• NCJ Number: 10485
• Author(s): D F MUSTO
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 367 pages
• Sale Source: Yale University Press
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

STRUGGLE WITH NARCOTIC ADDICTION FROM END OF CIVIL WAR TO PRESENT, WITH EMPHASIS ON YEARS 1900-1940 WHEN OFFICIAL ATTITUDES CRYSTALLIZED INTO LASTING POLICIES.

Abstract

THE AUTHOR DELINEATES THE INTER-RELATED EFFECTS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD MINORITY GROUPS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULAR DRUGS, THE DEVELOPING MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL PROFESSIONS, AND THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF FEDERAL POLICING POWER. THE EVOLUTION OF FEDERAL EFFORTS TOWARD DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROLS, AND THE CHANGING POPULARITY OF STATE AND CITY DRUG MAINTENANCE CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ARE TRACED. THE HISTORY OF THE DIVERSE AND SOMETIMES BIZARRE CURES FOR DRUG ADDICTION LEADS THE AUTHOR TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE ARE NO SIMPLE ANSWERS TO THE DRUG PROBLEM.