| Description |
510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
America's first drug epidemic 1885-1925. "One day you find yourself in hell" ; "Had the dope habit and had it bad" ; "The Congress should take immediate action on the antinarcotic legislation" ; "A cinema crowd of cocaine-crazed sexual lunatics" ; "Arnold Rothstein, financial genius of the underworld plutocracy ; "It can be safely stated that the days of the 500 kilo deliveries have passed" -- America's second drug epidemic 1950-1970. "The sky is high and so am I" ; "His fame spread throughout the world" ; "Marseille is unquestionably the most important narcotics smuggler's haven in all of Europe" ; "Agents were engaged in illicit activities" -- The counterculture 1960-1975. "Burning for the heavenly connection" ; "One pill makes you larger" ; "Everybody must get stoned" ; "The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency" -- America's third drug epidemic 1980-1995. "High on cocaine" ; The Columbian cartels are "far more dangerous than any criminal enterprise in U.S. history" ; "Now everyone was into smoking crack" ; "Coke is addicting, health-ruining, home-wrecking, and worst of all, career-wrecking" ; "You have to pay up somewhere along the line." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages[481]-486) and index. |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- United States -- History.
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Pharmaceutical policy -- United States -- History.
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Drug traffic -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0684196700: $30.00 |
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