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Creating the American Junkie : Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801874536
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating the American JunkieDDC classification:
  • 362.29/3/0973
LOC classification:
  • HV5822.H4 A375 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: "Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." -- New England Journal of Medicine.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." -- New England Journal of Medicine.

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