Cocaine

From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920

Автор: Joseph F. Spillane

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Johns Hopkins University Press

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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three deca...

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Автор

Joseph F. Spillane

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2002

страници

240

EAN

9780801871160

ISBN

0801871166

Enbook ID

04709236

Издател

Johns Hopkins University Press

Теглоt

386

Размери

152 x 229 x 13

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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three decades this substance derived from the coca plant became so popular that it became, ironically, a public health problem. Demand exceeded supply; abuse proliferated. The black market produced a legendary underground of "cocaine fiends." As attempts at regulation failed, Congress in 1914 banned cocaine outright, and America launched its longstanding war against now-illegal drugs. Challenging "traditional thinking about both the 'rise' and 'fall' of drug problems" (which makes legal prohibition the pivotal point in the story), Spillane examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. He explores the role of American business in fostering consumer interest in cocaine during the years when no law proscribed its use, the ways in which authorities and social agents tried nonetheless to establish informal controls on the substance, and the mixed results they achieved. In asking how this pain-allaying drug became recognizably dangerous, how reformers tried to ameliorate its social effects, and how an underground of cocaine abusers developed even before regulation of the drug industry as a whole, Spillane discovers contingency, complication, and mixed motives. Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today.

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From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920

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