Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction : psychoactive drugs - an American way of life	1
I	Framing addiction and alcoholism
	The lessons of language : historical perspectives on the rhetoric of addiction	33
	How does the nation's "alcohol problem" change from era to era? : stalking the social logic of problem-definition transformations since repeal	61
II	Alcohol and narcotics in the American context
	"I was addicted to drinking rum" : four centuries of alcohol consumption in Indian country	91
	Reforming drunkards in nineteenth-century America : religion, medicine, therapy	108
	Building a boozatorium : state medical reform for Iowa's inebriates, 1902-1920	124
	Portrait of an addicted family : dynamics of opiate addiction in the early twentieth century	165
	The double meaning of addiction : habitual narcotic use and the logic of professionalizing medical authority in the United States, 1900-1920	182
	Demons for the twentieth century : the rhetoric of drug reform, 1920-1940	203
	Maintaining orthodoxy : the depression-era struggle over morphine maintenance in California	225
	"Lady tipplers" : gendering the modern alcoholism paradigm, 1933-1960	267
	Sober husband and supportive wives : marital dramas of alcoholism in post-World War II America	298
III	Psychotropics, psychedelics, and cigarettes
	No one listened to imipramine	329
	LSD before Leary : Sidney Cohen's critique of 1950s psychedelic drug research	353
	From nicotine to nicotrol : addiction, cigarettes, and American culture	383
	Further reading	403
	Notes on contributors	412