Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.
Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.
Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1. The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion 2. ‘Hop Heads’: The Effects of Criminalization, 1920–1945 3. ‘Hypes’: Using and Quitting, 1945–1961 4. ‘After a Short Struggle’: Police Officers and Drug Users 5. Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of Narcotic Control 6. Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard Society 7. Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to Treatment Conclusion APPENDIX NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1. The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion 2. ‘Hop Heads’: The Effects of Criminalization, 1920–1945 3. ‘Hypes’: Using and Quitting, 1945–1961 4. ‘After a Short Struggle’: Police Officers and Drug Users 5. Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of Narcotic Control 6. Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard Society 7. Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to Treatment Conclusion APPENDIX NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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