Title
Dark Paradise : A History of Opiate Addiction in America / David T. Courtwright.
ISBN
9780674029910
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (352 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674029910 doi
Call Number
HV5816 ǂb C648 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.2930973
Summary
In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a criminal record. Challenging the prevailing view that the shift resulted from harsh new laws, Courtwright shows that the crucial role was played by the medical rather than the legal profession. Dark Paradise tells the story not only from the standpoint of legal and medical sources, but also from the perspective of addicts themselves. With the addition of a new introduction and two new chapters on heroin addiction and treatment since 1940, Courtwright has updated this compelling work of social history for the present crisis of the Drug War.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface, 2001
A Note on Terminology and Spelling
Introduction
1 The Extent of Opiate Addiction
2 Addiction to Opium and Morphine
3 Addiction to Smoking Opium
4 Addiction to Heroin
5 The Transformation of the Opiate Addict
6 Heroin in Postwar America
7 The Drug Wars
Appendix: Addiction Rate and City Size
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
