Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control Book

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Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control, Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatristsand psychologis, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control

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Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control
Written by author Caroline Jean Acker
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2002
Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatristsand psychologis
"Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." — New England Journal of Medicine Charles E. Rosenberg This

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Introduction 1
1 Heroin Addiction and Urban Vice Reform 13
2 The Opportunistic Approach 43
3 The Technological Fix: The Search for a Nonaddicting Analgesic 62
4 Constructing the Addict Career 98
5 The Junkie as Psychopath 125
6 Healing Vision and Bureaucratic Reality 156
7 The Addict in the Social Body 184
Conclusion 212
Notes 231
Acknowledgments 261
Index 267

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	Introduction	1
1	Heroin Addiction and Urban Vice Reform	13
2	The Opportunistic Approach	43
3	The Technological Fix: The Search for a Nonaddicting Analgesic	62
4	Constructing the Addict Career	98
5	The Junkie as Psychopath	125
6	Healing Vision and Bureaucratic Reality	156
7	The Addict in the Social Body	184
	Conclusion	212
	Notes	231
	Acknowledgments	261
	Index	267