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1 online resource (276 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Heroin abuse -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Heroin abuse -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Heroin abuse. |
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Heroin abuse -- Research -- United States.
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Heroin abuse -- Research. |
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Drug addiction -- Research -- United States.
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Drug addiction -- Research. |
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Drug addiction. |
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Drug addicts -- Research -- United States.
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Drug addicts -- Research. |
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Drug addicts. |
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Drug addicts -- Government policy -- United States.
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Drug addicts -- Government policy. |
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Heroin Dependence -- history. |
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Drug and Narcotic Control -- history. |
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Heroin Dependence -- etiology. |
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Research -- history. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947- Creating the American junkie. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 0801867983 (DLC) 2001001520 (OCoLC)46463296 |
| ISBN |
080187453X (electronic book) |
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9780801874536 (electronic book) |
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9780801883835 (print) |
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0801883830 (print) |
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0801867983 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801867989 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0801883830 |
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