Substance abuse in America : a documentary and reference guide / James A. Swartz
- Author
- Swartz, James, 1955-
- Published
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- xxviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Reader's guide to related documents and sidebars -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early 20th century: patent medicines, the rise and fall of prohibition, the narcotics farms -- The 1930s through the 1950s : Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of narcotics, Reefer madness, the Kefauver committee, the beat generation -- The 1960s through the mid-1990s : amphetamines and barbiturates, the counterculture, lsd, and Vietnam, the heroin epidemics, cocaine re-emerges, crack-cocaine, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, sentencing disparities -- The mid-1990s to 2011 : medical marijuana, black tar heroin, oxycontin -- Methamphetamine, the Mexican drug war, the war on drugs continues -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780313353765 (alk. paper)
031335376X (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
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