Heroin Century, Carnwath, Tom

Автор: Carnwath, Tom
Название: Heroin Century
ISBN: 0415278996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415278997
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Schneider Eric C.
Название: Smack: Heroin and the American City
ISBN: 081222180X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812221800
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.
During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks to import and distribute the drug to cities throughout the country, generating vast sums of capital in return. Schneider uncovers how New York, as the principal distribution hub, organized the global trade in heroin and sustained the subcultures that supported its use.
Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. Musician Red Rodney called heroin the trademark of the bebop generation. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Smack takes readers through the typical haunts of heroin users—52nd Street jazz clubs, Times Square cafeterias, Chicago's South Side street corners—to explain how young people were initiated into the drug culture.
Smack recounts the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960s and 1970s. It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Panics over the drug led to the passage of increasingly severe legislation that entrapped heroin users in the criminal justice system without addressing the issues that led to its use in the first place. The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply.

Автор: Barry Spunt
Название: Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City
ISBN: 1137599715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137599711
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career trajectory.

Автор: Bartoszko, Aleksandra
Название: Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway
ISBN: 0367655551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367655556
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Автор: Lalander, Philip
Название: Hooked on Heroin
ISBN: 1859737676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781859737675
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Автор: Gossop, Michael
Название: Heroin Addiction and The British System
ISBN: 0415298156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415298155
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Moraes Ph. D. Francis
Название: The Heroin User`s Handbook
ISBN: 1579512291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781579512293
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Описание: Heroin is a fascinating drug to most people. It is often referred to as the "hardest drug." By this logic, people might start with alcohol, work up to marijuana and maybe LSD. Then they reach to cocaine or methamphetamine. And finally, at the end of the journey is heroin. But like most things about heroin, this is more myth than reality.

For non-users, this mythic power is exciting. And writers for the last century have been more than willing to pander to such readers in pulp and art novels all the way up to television crime novels. But it is rare for the most people to get a real look at what is, after all, the very core of what heroin is about for its users.

To users, the interest is obvious. But ignorance of the the details of drug use among heroin users is rife -- usually based on what the author calls "old junkie tales." The difference between such folklore and the truth is often the difference between life and death.

Heroin User's Handbook reveals the largely hidden world of heroin use based upon actual work with users and countless scholarly books and articles. And it does it in an extremely readable, non-technical manner -- even while providing detained and accurate information.

The book discusses all aspects of heroin use: the acquisition of drugs, the administration of them, health risks, legal issues, social aspects, and addiction and detox. It provides the non-heroin world with a detailed look inside a very rarefied subculture. But it also provides the those in the heroin using world life-saving information.

Автор: Gossop, Michael
Название: Heroin Addiction and The British System
ISBN: 0415298172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415298179
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Автор: Bartoszko Aleksandra
Название: Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other
ISBN: 0367655543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367655549
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Описание: Focusing on the world of Norwegian opioid substitution treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of `individual choice` and `patient involvement` in the field of addiction globally.

Автор: Spunt Barry
Название: Heroin and Music in New York City
ISBN: 1137308567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137308566
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians` playing, creativity, and careers.