Smack : heroin and the American city /

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...

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Main Author: Schneider, Eric C., 1951-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central