War and drugs
Subtitle: the role of military conflict in the development of substance abuse
By: Dessa K. Bergen-Cico
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781594518942; 9781594518959
Subjects: War and society; Soldiers; History; Drug use; Drug traffic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overview of drugs [as refuge from,] and [tools of,] war; title: The opium wars and poppy empires; title: Drugs [as relief from the suffering of] and the Civil War; title: French connections; title: High Hitler; title: World War II; title: The Cold War was hot for the drug trade; title: Project Bluebird and MK-Ultra; title: The Vietnam War and the blowback at home; title: Mexico's drug war; title: Chapter11 drugs and the Afghan wars; title: PTSD and substance abuse among veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars; title: Conclusion: the seven generations cost of war.