Substance abuse in America
Subtitle: a documentary and reference guide
By: James A. Swartz
Series: Documentary and reference guides
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313353765; 9780313353772
Subjects: Substance abuse
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reader's guide to related documents and sidebars; title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The early 20th century: patent medicines, the rise and fall of prohibition, the narcotics farms; title: The 1930s through the 1950s : Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of narcotics, Reefer madness, the Kefauver committee, the beat generation; title: The 1960s through the mid-1990s : amphetamines and barbiturates, the counterculture, lsd, and Vietnam, the heroin epidemics, cocaine re-emerges, crack-cocaine, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, sentencing disparities; title: The mid-1990s to 2011 : medical marijuana, black tar heroin, oxycontin; title: Methamphetamine, the Mexican drug war, the war on drugs continues; title: Bibliography; title: Index.