Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research

by Nancy D. Campbell

Discovering Addiction brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival research and dozens of oral-history interviews with addiction researchers. Professor Campbell examines the birth of addiction science---the National Academy of Sciences's project to find a pharmacological fix for narcotics addiction in the late 1930s---and then explores the human and primate experimentation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047211610X
• ISBN13: 9780472116102
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"