Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams
Subtitle: a history of America's romance with illegal drugs
By: Jill Jonnes
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780684196701
Subjects: Drug traffic; Drug abuse; Pharmaceutical policy; History
Description: Traces the spread of illegal drugs throughout our culture: from the freewheeling Prohibition era through World War II, to the 'flower power' 1960s right right up to the present, when stories about crack babies and the resurgence of heroin dominate newspaper headlines and confronts a contemporary controversial issue--the legalization of drugs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America's first drug epidemic 1885-1925; title: America's second drug epidemic 1950-1970; title: The counterculture 1960-1975; title: America's third drug epidemic 1980-1995.