Description: Further DetailsTitle: Drugs in AmericaCondition: NewSubtitle: A Documentary HistoryISBN-10: 0814756638EAN: 9780814756638ISBN: 9780814756638Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/28/2002Description: Chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of drugs popular in the U.S.Most Americans would be surprised to learn that large quantities of beer were brought over on the Puritan ships and that the hallowed Puritans were fond of drink. How many today realize that hemp was once one of our most lucrative cash crops encouraged by President John Adams and promoted by the Agriculture department? Or that cocaine, opium and heroin had several waves of popularity in this century and the last? Drugs and alcohol have been with us from the start. So have attempts to control or eliminate their use. In the first anthology of its kind, renowned drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the Unites States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates. In the section on alcohol we hear the Reverend Lyman Beecher, prominent radical abolitionist and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, thundering against the evils of alcohol in 1826. We read medical documents that show how the first stirrings of concern about about what is now termed fetal-alcohol syndrome in 1910 turned public opinion against drinking and helped move the country toward Prohibition. The sections on illegal drugs contain surprises as well.With accessible, jargon-free introductions this anthology puts drug and alcohol use at the center of American culture. At this critical point in the "war on drugs" if we do not appreciate our drug and alcohol history we may become captive to the powerful emotions that lead to draconian repression, exaggeration, or apathy and silence.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Weight: 1021gAuthor: David F. MustoGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Drugs in America
Title: Drugs in America
Subtitle: A Documentary History
ISBN-10: 0814756638
EAN: 9780814756638
ISBN: 9780814756638
Release Date: 07/28/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 574 Pages
Publication Name: Drugs in America : a Documentary History
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, Pharmacy, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Pharmacology, Psychopathology / Addiction, United States / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 36 Oz
Subject Area: Psychology, History, Medical
Author: David F. Musto
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
