Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 080187453X
9780801874536
9780801883835
0801883830
0801867983
9780801867989
0801883830
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produccd a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities who were caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would eacape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict - or junkie - more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947- Creating the American junkie. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 0801867983
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