Creating the American junkie addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / [electronic resource] :
Caroline Jean Acker.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- 276 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Heroin abuse--Social aspects--United States. Heroin abuse--Research--United States. Drug addiction--Research--United States. Drug addicts--Research--United States. Drug addicts--Government policy--United States.