Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.
Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
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N362.2932/2
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"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 i...
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Smack : heroin and the American city / Eric C. Schneider.
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Politics and culture in modern America.
Politics and culture in modern America.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index.
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c2008.
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N362.2932/2
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74VMjN0gZj6y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjN0gZj6y
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ISBN
9780812241167 (alk. paper)
0812241169 (alk. paper)
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362.29320973
MMS ID
991001175069702626
