Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America before 1965

David T. Courtwright · Herman Joseph · Don Des Jarlais

janv. 2013 · Univ. of Tennessee Press

À propos de cet e-book

Narcotics addicts seldom leave documents recording their experiences; historians are reduced to learning about them inferentially from police records and other hostile or sketchy sources. In this important new edition, however, the addicts speak for themselves. 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.

À propos de l'auteur

David Courtwright is best known for his books on drug use and drug policy in American and world history (Dark Paradise, Addicts Who Survived, Forces of Habit, and The Age of Addiction) and for his books on the special problems of frontier environments (Violent Land and Sky as Frontier). He has also written a history of the culture war that engulfed America in the four decades after Nixon's 1968 election, No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America.