Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

by Huan Gao

Book Overview

Accompanying China's economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly in the country. While heroin use in China is soaring, little is known about women's heroin use in the context of China's rapidly changing society.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415852145
• ISBN13: 9780415852142
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"