In 1898 Heroin, the Bayer trademark name for diacetylmorphine, was commercially introduced to every corner of the Earth. Contrary to common assertion, Heroin was not recommended for treatment of morphine or opium habits. Rather, Heroin filled a desperate need for a powerful cough suppressant. The leading causes of death at that time, tuberculosis and pneumonia, were linked to uncontrollable coughing. Heroin performed well in preliminary testing by the manufacturer and upon release was hailed for its effectiveness. Although Heroin is a morphine derivative, for several years it was thought not to be particularly habit-forming. Its addictive potential became apparent especially in the United States, where its sale was pretty much unrestricted until 1914. Heroin's prominent use among teen-aged gangs in New York City prompted the city's health commissioner in 1919 to characterize that use as "an American disease."
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Provides up-to-date scholarship and a multidisciplinary approach to the unusual and dramatic history of a drug introduced as a regular pharmaceutical product, and its status after a century of growing alarm over Heroin's impact on American and other societies.
--This text refers to the Textbook Binding edition.About the Author
DAVID F. MUSTO is Professor, Child Study Center and History of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Lecturer in American Studies and History at Yale University.
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heroin injection generation, heroin maintenance trial, new heroin use, first heroin use, heroin complex, first used heroin, heroin addiction epidemic, agonist maintenance treatment, heroin sellers, heroin subculture, heroin overdose deaths, heroin addiction treatment, heroin epidemic, heroin problem, methadone maintenance treatment, maintenance clinics, methadone treatment, methadone programs, conduct norms, opium problem, methadone patients, heroin abusers, methadone doses, opium monopoly, heroin chic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, District of Columbia, National Institute, White House, World War, New Haven, Special Action Office, Heroin Injection Era, Fort Worth, Government Printing Office, Des Jarlais, Chiang Kai-shek, Harrison Act, Institute of Medicine, Treasury Department, Green Gang, Journal of Drug Issues, Vincent Dole, Foreign Office, Oxford University Press, The American Disease, Archives of General Psychiatry, Free Press, Jerry Jaffe New!
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New York, United States, District of Columbia, National Institute, White House, World War, New Haven, Special Action Office, Heroin Injection Era, Fort Worth, Government Printing Office, Des Jarlais, Chiang Kai-shek, Harrison Act, Institute of Medicine, Treasury Department, Green Gang, Journal of Drug Issues, Vincent Dole, Foreign Office, Oxford University Press, The American Disease, Archives of General Psychiatry, Free Press, Jerry Jaffe New!
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- The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto on 8 pages
- Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown on page 121, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Taking Care of Business by Bobby W. Johnson on page 125, page 127, and Back Matter
- Drug Abuse: Linking Policy and Research (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) by Eric D. Wish on page 71, page 89, and page 128
- The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction by Robert L Dupont M.D. on page 68, page 89, and Back Matter
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