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Informationen zum Autor James A. Swartz , PhD, is associate professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois. Klappentext This book provides a comprehensive overview of drug policy in the United States from the early 1900s through the present day, providing historical and social context through the telling of the colorful and often tragic stories of the events and individuals throughout this period. Substance Abuse in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide examines the history of U.S. drug policy chronologically, from the early 1900s through the current day, covering topics such as patent medicines, Prohibition, Reefer Madness, the psychedelic '60s, Nixon's War on Drugs, and the powerful warring Mexican drug cartels that currently threaten political instability in that country. This book provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. drug policy that will fascinate general readers and benefit those in the field of substance abuse treatment or policy. Each chapter includes an analysis of a primary source document that serves to illuminate drug policy in America at a particular point in time as well as the reasons for the waxing and waning popularity of various drugs. The author provides accurate historical context that explains perceptions about substance abuse in American history, and draws compelling parallels across different time periods to show that much of what may seem new and unique for the present generation actually has a historical precedent. "Rarely is a book as useful for advanced researchers as for undergraduates, but Substance Abuse in America is such a book. . . . The well-written introduction concisely summarizes early laws; Prohibition; the role of the nation's first drug czar, Harry Anslinger; the beginnings of the misuse of prescription drugs; and current problems. . . . Highly recommended." - Choice Zusammenfassung This book provides a comprehensive overview of drug policy in the United States from the early 1900s through the present day! providing historical and social context through the telling of the colorful and often tragic stories of the events and individuals throughout this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Reader's Guide to Related Documents and Sidebars Foreword by David T. Courtwright Preface: The Forgotten War Introduction 1. The Early 20th Century: Patent Medicines, the Rise and Fall of Prohibition, the Narcotics Farms "The Whole Vast System of Bunco" "A Big Wild Man Who Has Cocaine in His Body" "A Hitherto Inoffensive Negro" "In the Course of His Professional Practice Only" "The Great Social and Economic Experiment, Noble in Motive and Far Reaching in Purpose" "No One but a Physician" "Nobody Shot Me" "I Believe This Would Be a Good Time for a Beer" "The Sick and Afflicted Shall Be Set in the Way of Strength and Hope" 2. The 1930s through the 1950s: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Reefer Madness, the Kefauver Committee, the Beat Generation "As Dangerous as a Coiled Snake" "It Has Something to Do with Something That Is Called Marihuana" "It Is Concluded That Marihuana Is Not a Drug of Addiction, Comparable to Morphine" "They Go from Sneaky Pete to Pot to Horse to Banging" "They Took the Needle When the Thrill of Marijuana Was Gone" "To Provide a More Effective Control of Narcotic Drugs and Marihuana" "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Madness" "Current Treatment of Addiction Is Unsatisfactory" 3. The 1960s through the Mid-1990s: Amphetamines and Barbiturates, the Counterculture, LSD, Vietnam, the Heroin Epidemics, Cocaine Reemerges, Crack Cocaine, HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Sentencing Disparities "Better Living through Chemistry" "We Really Thought That Drugs Were Going to Change the World" "Crapping around Will Not Be Tolerated" "'Junk...
