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Peer reviewedCourtwright, David T. – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Discusses the wave of cocaine abuse that followed the drug's recommendation by the late nineteenth-century medical community as a cure all. Details drug addiction among ethnic and social groups at the turn of the century. Warns that drug epidemics have important social and legal consequences. Suggests legal pressure may alter the form of drug…
Descriptors: Black Community, Cocaine, Crime, Drug Addiction
