Dark Paradise
Subtitle: A History of Opiate Addiction in America
Edition: Enlarged edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674005853
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drug Dependence; Morphine abuse; History - U.S; United States - General; History: American; North America; USA; Therapeutic use; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / 19th Century; History; Opium; Opium abuse; United States
First sentence: Reconstructing the pattern of opiate addiction in the United States is difficult, not only because addicts tended to conceal their condition, but because much of the historical evidence has been exaggerated and distorted.