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About this book

Acknowledgments

Reference essay : addiction : a scientific and historical overview

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Primary source documents

Documents 1-3 : discovering the dangers of addiction

Document 1. An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind / Benjamin Rush

Document 2. Morphinism and narcomanias from other drugs / Thomas D. Crothers

Document 3. "The curse of the cocaine habit" / The San Francisco Call

Documents 4-6 : the spread of addiction and the call to action in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries

Document 4. Representative White on alcoholism in Washington, D.C.

Document 5. "The opium habit" / The New York Times

Document 6. "Negro cocaine fiends" / Richmond Dispatch

Document 7 : Proving Coca-cola is harmless

Document 7. "Coca-Cola is harmless" / The Adair County News

Document 8 : smuggling drugs after the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act

Document 8. "Foiling the opium smugglers" / Lindsay Campbell, The San Francisco Call

Documents 9-10 : the federal government acts against alcohol and narcotics

Document 9. "See an opium outfit" / The New York Tribune

Document 10. "Representative Kelly on alcohol prohibition"

Documents 11-12 : calls for addiction to be treated as a disease

Document 11. "Narcotic drug addiction : a public health problem" / Ernest S. Bishop, American Journal of Public Health

Document 12. The addict and the law / Alfred Lindesmith

Documents 13-15 : the American government reports on, and attempts to act against, the health hazards of tobacco

Document 13. "Smoking and health" / Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Services

Document 14. "The health consequences of nicotine addiction" / Surgeon General

Document 15. "Hearing on the need for FDA regulation of tobacco" / U.S. Senate

Document 16 : the government tackles steroids

Document 16. "Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004" / U.S. House of Representatives

Documents 17-18 : beyond substance : beginning to recognize behavioral addictions

Document 17. "A general theory of addictions" / Durand F. Jacobs

Document 18. "NIDA will contribute to obesity research" / Nora D. Volkow

Further reading

Index.