Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-century Britain (Drugs and Alcohol Contested Histories)

by Alex Mold (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $80.21

  Examines the interaction of the different approaches to heroin addiction and argues that the treatment of the addiction as a disease and the control of heroin as a social problem could, in practice, rarely be separated. This book is suitable for historians, sociologists, addiction specialists and contemporary policy-makers.