Creating the American junkie [electronic resource] : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Heroin addiction and urban vice reform -- The opportunistic approach -- The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic -- Constructing the addict career -- The junkie as psychopath -- Healing vision and bureaucratic reality -- The addict in the social body.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.