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Creating the American junkie [electronic resource] : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.

By: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Description: 276 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Heroin abuse -- Social aspects -- United States | Heroin abuse -- Research -- United States | Drug addiction -- Research -- United States | Drug addicts -- Research -- United States | Drug addicts -- Government policy -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.29/3/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.