Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams
Subtitle: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780801861659
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; History of specific subjects; Social History; History - U.S.; United States - General; Sociology; USA; Psychopathology - Addiction; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; History / United States / General; History; Drug Abuse; Drug traffic; Pharmaceutical policy; United States
First sentence: In 1821 the obscure and impecunious English writer Thomas De Quincey created a minor sensation with his Confessions of an English Opium Eater.