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Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China:
Nationalism, History, and State Building

Central to China's identity, drugs have been inextricably linked to every aspect of the country's economy, polity, society, and culture since the early nineteenth century.

This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-drug crusades in twentieth-century China. The author traces the important role that nationalism has played in all of China's anti-drug crusades by providing the motivation, legitimacy, and emotional charge needed for Chinese authorities to take an anti-drug stance.

Drawing on previously unavailable archival sources and personal interviews, the author tells a rich story that will be valuable to Asia scholars and narcotics researchers alike.

Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China

Beating Heroin

Written for heroin addicts, their families, and medical personnel that treat heroin addiction. The book discusses how and why people become addicts and what can be done help stop them using the drug.

Beating Heroin

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

This masterpiece of literature is a fascinating account of the pains and pleasures of opium as well as an autobiographical account of his youth.

This books illustrates that sometimes moral or other world issues are not always in black and white. A sensitive and beautiful man, de Quincy's great book is a treasure!!!!

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater...

Dark Paradise:
A History of Opiate Addiction in America

This book takes a look at the use of opiates in the USA. From morphine and patent medicines to the heroin use of the present day.

One of the important things about this book is the way we look at addiction based on the group of people that are addicted. In the 1800's when opiates were used by up to 40% of the population, there was not too much finger pointing because 4 out of 10 people would have to point at the person in the mirror.

Today we have a painted picture of a small minority of down and out people whose sole existence is based on procuring another fix. A group we can single out to make ourselves feel that we are not the monster that must be ganged up on and eliminated, someone else is.

Dark Paradise

How to Stop Time:
Heroin from A to Z

Autobiography that follows the life of an upper class female addict. Throughout her seven-year addiction, she never shot up, lived on the street, resorted to selling drugs or her body to sustain her habit.

The fact that her own game with heroin ends in a draw gives her an unusual perspective on the friends, lovers, and dealers whose luck ran out and who lost everything.

Readers with the preconception that all druggies end up on the dark side may put this book down and ask, "Why do I believe anything the media tells me, am I really that dumb?" The answer is yes, you are. So get the book, turn off the TV and educate yourself.

How to Stop Time

Junky

A window into the life of an early 1950s heroin user. It illustrates the descent into addiction, from the first fix. The descriptions of a junkie's daily routine, from shaking down drunks in train stations to eluding police.

William Burroughs autobiographical narrative makes for a raw, fragmented, and disturbing account of hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings, strange sexual encounters, and quests to ease the hunger for the needle. This is the legendary account of one man's challenge to turn self-destruction into art.

Junky

One Hundred Years of Heroin

Originally the trademark of a great pharmaceutical enterprise, Heroin has evolved from a valued cough suppressant to the world's most feared opiate. Leading experts on the history, policy analysis, treatment, and demography of the drug combine to illuminate a century of controversy since the Bayer Company first introduced heroin.

One Hundred Years of Heroin

Opium Economy in Afganistan:
An International Problem

Written by the United Nations (UN), this is how the organization spends money doing what the US government (the major source of the UN budget) wants. It demonstrates why the UN is nothing more than a puppet of the highest bidder.

This book was an attempt to justify UN soldiers in Afganistan. In truth, the taliban had almost eliminated illicit drug production in the country. After UN soldiers were stationed in Afganistan, the production of illegal drugs increased.

Opium Economy in Afganistan

Opium Regimes:
China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952

Historical information about the role of China, Britain, and Japan on the Chinese opium business.

Opium Regimes

New Treatments for Opiate Dependence

Integrates chapters on the scientific basis of opiate addiction with a comprehensive survey of the latest treatment methods.

Includes traditional and new pharmacotherapy's, adjunct therapies, and the management of co-morbid substance abuse and medical conditions.

New Treatments for Opiate Dependence

Permanent Midnight:
A Memoir

Beginning his career as a pornographer for Beaver magazine, Stahl later wrote fake sex letters for Penthouse and articles for Hustler before moving on to write scripts for such TV hits as Moonlighting, Thirty something, and Alf, jobs that put almost $7,000 a week in his bank account.

This is also the story of Stahl's addictions to smack, coke, crack, dilaudids, you name it. Moving between $100 L.A. lunches and meetings with Cybill Shepherd to dangerous scores in the worst parts of the city, Stahl managed to lose his family, his house, his screenwriting opportunity for the second season of Twin Peaks, and nearly his life.

Permanent Midnight

Smack

Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. They run away in search of freedom.

For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on heroin, whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled.

Smack (softcover)
Smack (hardcover)

The Chinese Opium Wars

Very detailed book that looks at the problems caused by European merchants selling opium in China and surrounding areas. The Chinese government was forced to stop this opium trade and a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars erupted.

The Chinese Opium Wars

The Opium Wars:
The Addiction of One Empire
and the Corruption of Another

History of the events that led up to the opium wars and the various battles that were fought. Interesting and thorough reading for anyone interested in the subject.

The Opium Wars

The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes

As the title suggests, this is written from the Chinese point of view. Most history of the opium wars books are written from the European perspective. Essential reading for a balanced view of what happened.

The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes

The Politics of Heroin:
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

A greatly revised and expanded edition of Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. Tells a fascinating story, that opium was often the only viable form of currency. The author produces considerable disturbing evidence that US authorities are guilty at least of complicity in the global drug trade.

Exposes basic hypocrisy in American policy making, and demonstrates that, as long as powerful government bureaucracies work at cross-purposes, America's drug problem will not be easily solved.

The Politics of Heroin

The Voyage of the Frolic:
New England Merchants and the Opium Trade

The Frolic, a clipper ship from the mid-1800s was employed in the Asian opium trade from 1845 to 1850. The ship's crew ferried Indian opium to China and sold it for silver, which they then used to purchase Chinese tea. A fascinating look at a little known slice of American history.

The Voyage of the Frolic

This is Heroin

OK book if you are doing research on heroin for school but very little information that would interest someone looking honest truth. I doubt the author has ever tried heroin but the first sentence of the intro reads "The world is in the grip of a frightening drug: heroin."

I'm not sure of the world that is, but in most countries heroin is expensive and has such a bad reputation that very few people can afford or want to do it. If you would like to buy a politically correct book that sacrifices truth to propaganda, this book would be a good choice.

This is Heroin

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