Creating the American junkie: addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control
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Main Author: Acker, Caroline Jean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Heroin addiction and urban vice reform -- The opportunistic approach -- The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic -- Constructing the addict career -- The junkie as psychopath -- Healing vision and bureaucratic reality -- The addict in the social body
"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 as deviants with inherently flawed personalities who were caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would eacape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict - or junkie - more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
ISBN:0801867983
080187453X
9780801867989
9780801874536

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