Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.

Author
Schneider, Eric C., 1951-2017 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Description
xvi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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          Subject(s)
          Series
          Politics and culture in modern America [More in this series]
          Summary note
          "Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. Musician Red Rodney called heroin the trademark of the bebop generation. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Smack takes readers through the typical haunts of heroin users - 52nd Street jazz clubs, Times Square cafeterias, Chicago's South Side street corners - to explain how young people were initiated into the drug culture." "Smack recounts the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960s and 1970s. It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Panics over the drug led to the passage of increasingly severe legislation that entrapped heroin users in the criminal justice system without addressing the issues that led to its use in the first place. The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply"--Jacket.
          Bibliographic references
          Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index.
          Contents
          • New York and the global market
          • Jazz joints and junk
          • The plague
          • The panic over adolescent heroin use
          • Ethnicity and the market
          • The rising tide
          • Dealing with dope
          • Heroin suburbanizes
          • The war and the war at home
          • From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe
          • Heroin markets redux.
          ISBN
          • 9780812241167 ((alk. paper))
          • 0812241169 ((alk. paper))
          • 081222180X
          • 9780812221800
          LCCN
          2008007790
          OCLC
          202544158
          Other standard number
          • 99931694478
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