TY - BOOK ID - 77893252 TI - Addicts who survived : an oral history of narcotic use in America before 1965 AU - Courtwright, David T. AU - Des Jarlais, Don AU - Joseph, Herman PY - 1989 SN - 1572339764 1283948362 9781572339767 0870495879 9780870495878 PB - Knoxville : ©1989 University of Tennessee Press, DB - UniCat KW - Drug addicts KW - Drug control KW - Drug abuse KW - Drug enforcement KW - Drug law enforcement KW - Drug policy KW - Drug traffic KW - Drug traffic control KW - Drugs KW - Narcotics, Control of KW - War on drugs KW - Vice control KW - Druggies KW - Junkies (Drug addicts) KW - Narcotic addicts KW - Addicts KW - Drug abusers KW - Drug use KW - Substance abuse KW - History KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Biography KW - 20th century KW - Methadone maintenance KW - New York (N.Y.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893252 AB - The authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the ""classic"" era of strict narcotic control. Praise for the hardcover edition: ""A momentous book which I feel is destined to become a classic in the category of scholarly narcotic books.""-Claude Brown, author of the bestseller, Manchild in the Promised Land.""The drug literature is filled with the stereotyped opinions of non-addicted, middle-class pundits who have had little direct contact ER -