DRCNet Response to the
Drug Enforcement Administration
DRCNet Response: Those who wish a good background on the history of heroin, the heroin laws, and the dangers of heroin itself should read
From the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs:
- Chapter 1 - Nineteenth Century America - "a dope fiends paradise"
- Chapter 2 - Opiates for pain relief, for tranquilization, and for pleasure
- Chapter 3 - What kinds of people used opiates?
- Chapter 4 - Effects of opium, morphine and heroin on addicts
- Chapter 5 - Some eminent narcotics addicts
- Chapter 6 - Opium smoking is outlawed
- Chapter 7 - The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
- Chapter 8 - The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
- Chapter 9 - Tightening up the Harrison Act
- Chapter 10 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 1) Heroin is an addicting drug
- Chapter 11 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 2) The economics of the black market
- Chapter 12 - The heroin "overdose" mystery and other occupational hazards of heroin addiction
- Chapter 13 - Supplying heroin legally to addicts
- Chapter 14 - Enter methadone maintenance
- Chapter 15 - How well does methadone maintenance work?
- Chapter 16 - Methadone side effects
- Chapter 17 - Why methadone maintenance works
- Chapter 18 - Methadone maintenance spreads
- Chapter 19 - The future of methadone maintenance
- Chapter 20 - Heroin on the youth drug scene - and in Vietnam
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