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Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.
Author
Schneider, Eric C., 1951-2017
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Description
xvi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Heroin abuse
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United States
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History
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Minorities
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Substance use
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United States
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History
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Drug traffic
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United States
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History
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Drug control
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United States
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History
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Series
Politics and culture in modern America
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
9780812241167 ((alk. paper))
0812241169 ((alk. paper))
081222180X
9780812221800
LCCN
2008007790
OCLC
202544158
Other standard number
99931694478
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