Preface by David F. Musto The First 60 Years The Roads to H: The Emergence of the American Heroin Complex, 1898-1956 by David T. Courtwright Inside Policy Making 100 Years of Heroics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan Heroin Politics and Policy under President Nixon by Egil Krogh Jr. One Bite of the Apple: Establishing the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention by Jerome H. Jaffe The Urban Epidemic Heroin Addiction in the Nation's Capital, 1966-1973 by Robert L. DuPont Generational Trends in Heroin Use and Injection in New York City by Bruce D. Johnson and Andrew Golub Treatment Options Trick or Treat? A Century of American Responses to Heroin Addiction by William L. White Methadone: The Drug, the Treatment, the Controversy by Herbert D. Kleber Heroin Maintenance: Is a U.S. Experiment Needed? by Peter Reuter and Robert MacCoun From Heroin Addiction to Opioid Maintenance: Problem or Cure? Or, Not All Opioid Agonists Are the Same by Richard T. Schottenfeld Political and Cultural Complications Lessons for Mr. Arlacchi: A History of the Heroin Market by Kathryn Meyer Hip to Be High: Heroin and Popular Culture in the 20th Century by Jill Jonnes Index

Provides up-to-date scholarship and a multidisciplinary approach to the unusual and dramatic history of a drug introduced as a regular pharmaceutical product, and its status after a century of growing alarm over Heroin's impact on American and other societies.