| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. x, 277 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-00458-2.)

In Forces of Habit, David T. Courtwright harvests the multidisciplinary literature of the drug field and distills it with wit and historical acumen to produce the best single book we have on the history of psychoactive substances, their use and regulation. It is not the only book to read on the subject, but Forces of Habit provides the neophyte with a sophisticated place to begin and the teacher with a coherent overview from which to digress. Few books in any crowded and controversial field provide such sure-handed and wide-ranging synthesis. . . .

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