The American Disease
Subtitle: Origins of Narcotic Control (Oxford Paperbacks)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 14, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195052114
First sentence: Before 1800, opium was available in America in its crude form as an ingredient of multidrug prescriptions, or in such extracts as laudanum, containing alcohol, or "black drop," containing no alcohol.