From the 1950s girl junkie to the 1990s crack mom, this work investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives.
From the 1950s girl junkie to the 1990s crack mom, this work investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's ...
Discovering Addiction brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival research and dozens of oral-history interviews with addiction researchers. Professor Campbell examines the birth of addiction science---the National Academy of Sciences's project to find a pharmacological fix for narcotics addiction in the late 1930s---and then explores the human and primate experimentation involved in the succeeding studies of the "opium problem," revealing how addiction science became "brain science" by the...
Discovering Addiction brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival...
