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Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of "drug addiction" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a half later, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being "addicted" to just about anything. Yet as Timothy A. Hickman argues in this revealing interdisciplinary study, the meaning of addiction has always been as much cultural as scientific and never fixed. In The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days, Hickman resituates the idea of addiction within its original late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century context. Through close readings of a broad range of literary, medical, and legal texts, he shows how Americans of that era conceptualized the dangers of drug addiction in terms of other preoccupations and fears. Anxieties about the accelerating pace of technological change, the loss of personal autonomy, and the degeneration of society attributed to both foreign influences and a decline of manliness all fed into a widespread sense of cultural crisis―a crisis of which the spiraling "drug problem" was seen as both contributing cause and consequence. Not surprisingly, Hickman points out, deeply held assumptions of class, race, and gender also figured into the popular understanding of addiction. While white middle-class addicts were often depicted as helpless victims of the social and economic pressures of modern life, their less privileged and nonwhite counterparts were regarded as morally weak. Over time the distinction between "addict as patient" and "addict as criminal" came to be accepted by the emerging medical establishment and codified into law, eventually finding expression in the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the first national anti-narcotic legislation in the history of the United States―and the basis for much thinking about addiction and drug policy ever since.

Three decades of news stories and DEA case files journey behind the scenes of the War on Drugs to reveal the shadowy world of illegal substances and the dangerous world of powerful drug traffickers, in such investigations as the French Connection, the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Escobar, the Cali Mafia, the Black Tuna Gang, and others. Original.

An analysis of America's failed war on drugs argues against the conventional wisdon about drug abuse, and examines what really works in drug treatment and education.

The present book is about the drama of everyday life and the exercise of governmental power for the regulation of everyday conduct. It illustrates our nation's incessant struggle to maintain civil order without diminishing civil liberties. Today, this issue is especially relevant as American society tries to cope with school and family violence, media presentations of violence, the growth of the Internet, and the ravages of substance abuse. The problem of substance abuse and control is given more attention in order to narrow the scope of this book. It is the only social problem among the foregoing that has actually been the subject of a specific Constitutional amendment (the eighteenth). The amendment was aimed at eliminating the saloon and the consumption of liquor. The prohibition amendment is especially significant since it is the only amendment which has ever been repealed. The topic of substance abuse and control is presented by considering the events leading to national prohibition in 1920, the enforcement of prohibition, and the more recent issues and trends regarding overall drug enforcement. A final section of the book describes several ideas concerning a new mission and role for modern prohibition enforcement agents. (view table of contents)

The ever-popular lawyer-cum-sleuth returns in another installment of the original series, struggling to track down a female typist who holds the key to a gem-smuggling operation and a murder. Reissue.

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Argues that the myth of the 'dope fiend' has led to the failure of various attempted wars on drugs, as well as government involvement with organized crime and other abuses of power

Analyzes past drug control policies, and offers suggestions for a new policy that considers child welfare, the connection of drugs and crime, and the role of the federal government (view table of contents)

Descriptions of various drugs and their effects accompany the comprehensive study of political action on drug control during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries