Substance abuse in America: a documentary and reference guide

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

The early 20th century: patent medicines, the rise and fall of prohibition, the narcotics farms

The 1930s through the 1950s : Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of narcotics, Reefer madness, the Kefauver committee, the beat generation

The 1960s through the mid-1990s : amphetamines and barbiturates, the counterculture, lsd, and Vietnam, the heroin epidemics, cocaine re-emerges, crack-cocaine, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, sentencing disparities

The mid-1990s to 2011 : medical marijuana, black tar heroin, oxycontin

Methamphetamine, the Mexican drug war, the war on drugs continues

Bibliography

Index.