The American disease
Subtitle: origins of narcotic control
By: David F. Musto.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Drug addiction -- United States -- History; Drug control -- United States -- History; Narcotic laws -- United States -- History; Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- History
Description: The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War to the present day.

This third edition contains a new chapter and preface that cover the renewed debate on policy and drug legislation from the end of the Reagan administration to the present Clinton administration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-390) and index.