The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920

by Timothy A. Hickman

Book Overview

Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of "drug addiction" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a half later, the term is so commonplace we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495665
• ISBN13: 9781558495661
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher