| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. By Caroline Jean Acker. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 276 pp. $41.95, ISBN 0-8018-6798-3.)

In Creating the American Junkie, Caroline Jean Acker links fundamental changes in the epidemiology of opiate addiction during the early twentieth century to the development of addiction research and domestic aspects of drug control policy from the 1920s through the 1960s. The focal period, given its handle by David Courtwright and his colleagues in Addicts Who Survived (1989), was an era in which drug laws became increasingly punitive and a therapeutic orthodoxy that excluded opiate maintenance held sway. Drug historians conventionally date the "classic era" from the forced closure of the Shreveport, Louisiana, clinic in 1924 to the advent of lawful methadone maintenance in 1965.

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