Dark paradise
Subtitle: a history of opiate addiction in America
By: David T. Courtwright
Edition: Enl. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780674005853
Subjects: Commerce; Drogues; Law and legislation; Opium; Histoire; Droit; Heroin abuse; Toxicomanes; Drogenpolitik; Opioid-Related Disorders; Drogenabhängigkeit; Therapeutic use; Morphine abuse; Drug addicts; History, 20th Century; Héroïnomanie; Opium trade; Drugsverslaving; Emploi en thérapeutique; Opiumhandel; Morphinomanie; History, 19th Century; Opiaten; Opiomanie; History; Opium abuse
Description: "David T. Courtwright offers an interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a delinquent or criminal record. Challenging the prevailing view that the shift resulted simply from harsh new laws, Courtwright shows that the crucial role was played by the medical rather than the legal profession.

Dark Paradise tells the story not only from the standpoint of legal and medical sources, but also from the perspective of addicts themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: The extent of opiate addiction; title: Addiction to opium and morphine; title: Addiction to smoking opium; title: Addiction to heroin; title: The transformation of the opiate addict; title: Heroin in postwar American; title: The drug wars.