| Description |
xiii, 398 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-379) and index. |
| Contents |
List of entries -- About this book -- Acknowledgments -- Reference essay : addiction : a scientific and historical overview -- Entries -- Primary source documents -- Documents 1-3 : discovering the dangers of addiction -- Document 1. An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind / Benjamin Rush -- Document 2. Morphinism and narcomanias from other drugs / Thomas D. Crothers -- Document 3. "The curse of the cocaine habit" / The San Francisco Call -- Documents 4-6 : the spread of addiction and the call to action in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries -- Document 4. Representative White on alcoholism in Washington, D.C. -- Document 5. "The opium habit" / The New York Times -- Document 6. "Negro cocaine fiends" / Richmond Dispatch -- Document 7 : Proving Coca-cola is harmless -- Document 7. "Coca-Cola is harmless" / The Adair County News -- Document 8 : smuggling drugs after the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act -- Document 8. "Foiling the opium smugglers" / Lindsay Campbell, The San Francisco Call -- Documents 9-10 : the federal government acts against alcohol and narcotics -- Document 9. "See an opium outfit" / The New York Tribune -- Document 10. "Representative Kelly on alcohol prohibition" -- Documents 11-12 : calls for addiction to be treated as a disease -- Document 11. "Narcotic drug addiction : a public health problem" / Ernest S. Bishop, American Journal of Public Health -- Document 12. The addict and the law / Alfred Lindesmith -- Documents 13-15 : the American government reports on, and attempts to act against, the health hazards of tobacco -- Document 13. "Smoking and health" / Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Services -- Document 14. "The health consequences of nicotine addiction" / Surgeon General -- Document 15. "Hearing on the need for FDA regulation of tobacco" / U.S. Senate -- Document 16 : the government tackles steroids -- Document 16. "Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004" / U.S. House of Representatives -- Documents 17-18 : beyond substance : beginning to recognize behavioral addictions -- Document 17. "A general theory of addictions" / Durand F. Jacobs -- Document 18. "NIDA will contribute to obesity research" / Nora D. Volkow -- Further reading -- Index. |
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Alcoholism -- United States. |
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Health Policy -- United States. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- United States. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy -- United States. |
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Drug addiction -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Alcoholism -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Substance abuse -- Treatment -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Added Author |
Cunningham, Jacob.
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| ISBN |
9781598842296 (alk. paper) |
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1598842293 (alk. paper) |
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