"Fascinating, well researched and finely honed...This is a must read."--Judge Peggy F. Hora, 'California Bench' Once upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins 'Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams', Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
- ISBN10 0801861659
- ISBN13 9780801861659
- Publish Date 28 April 1999 (first published 1 August 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 520
- Language English