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Contents Acknowledgments 000 Introduction: Psychoactive Drugs--An American Way of Life Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker 000 I. Framing Addiction and Alcoholism The Lessons of Language: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Addiction William L. White 000 How Does the Nation's "Alcohol Problem" Change from Era to Era?: Stalking the Social Logic of Problem-Definition Transformations since Repeal Ron Roizen 000 II. Alcohol and Narcotics in the American Context "I Was Addicted to Drinking Rum": Four Centuries of Alcohol Consumption in Indian Country Peter Mancall 000 Reforming Drunkards in Nineteenth-Century America: Religion, Medicine, Therapy Katherine A. Chavigny 000 Building a Boozatorium: State Medical Reform for Iowa's Inebriates, 1902-1920 Sarah W. Tracy 000 Portrait of an Addicted Family: Dynamics of Opiate Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century Caroline Jean Acker 000 The Double Meaning of Addiction: Habitual Narcotic Use and the Logic of Professionalizing Medical Authority in the United States, 1900-1920 Timothy Hickman 000 Demons for the Twentieth Century: The Rhetoric of Drug Reform, 1920-1940 Susan L. Speaker 000 Maintaining Orthodoxy: The Depression-Era Struggle over Morphine Maintenance in California Jim Baumohl 000 "Lady Tipplers": Gendering the Modern Alcoholism Paradigm, 1933-1960 Michelle McClellan 000 Sober Husbands and Supportive Wives: Marital Dramas of Alcoholism in Post-World War II America Lori E. Rotskoff 000 III. Psychotropics, Psychedelics, and Cigarettes No One Listened to Imipramine Nicholas Weiss, M.D. 000 LSD before Leary: Sidney Cohen's Critique of 1950s Psychedelic Drug Research Steven J. Novak 000 From Nicotine to Nicotrol: Addiction, Cigarettes, and American Culture Allan M. Brandt 000 Further Reading 000 Notes on Contributors 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Alcoholism United States History, Drug abuse United States History