Medically-based history of heroin's development and medical use, its demonization and widespread abuse, and the social control policies it engendered. Compares British and American systems for the treatment of addicts, and makes medical and policy recommendations.
- ISBN10 0300027737
- ISBN13 9780300027730
- Publish Date 10 September 1982 (first published 1 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English