Drugs Won’t Do It People Will an Educational Record About Narcotic Addiction
Drugs Won’t Do It People Will An Educational Record About Narcotic Addiction
Original release: Medi-Disc 103, 1969
No producer credited
Issued by Gaudenzia House treatment centre, Philadelphia
Group seminar led by Dr Frederick Glaser, with participants
Ronne Litvack, Robert Borriello and Horace Smith
Comments: A primitively produced group chat between three East-coast ex-junkie kids and their mentor. A jewish girl whines in a thick N Y accent on her materialistic, uncaring mother; an Italian kid from the same suburb analyzes the junkie predicament in a somewhat detach
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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction And Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of “drug addiction” could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a half later, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being “addicted” to just about an
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