The Opium trail: heroin and imperialism

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Description: Essay topics include opium consumption in nineteenth and twentieth century America; police officers’ involvement in heroin pushing in Harlem; the use of heroin by political authorities in African American ghettos; women heroin addicts; heroin use by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, including personal narratives by veterans and their court testimony; imperialist powers’ use of opium in China to render the population subservient; contemporary smuggling routes though southeast Asia; methadone treatment; political action in the U.S. against the conditions that create addiction.
Names: Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1972; Place: Boston, Mass.; Publisher: New England Free Press; Edition: Second edition.
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll Opium T73 1972
Topics: Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Drug addiction -- United States; Drug control -- New York (State) -- New York; Drug traffic -- Political aspects -- History. -- Asia; Drug traffic -- United States; Drug traffic -- Vietnam; Heroin -- Asia, Southeastern; Heroin -- Physiological effect; Heroin -- Psychological aspects; Heroin abuse -- Treatment -- History -- United States; Heroin abuse -- History -- United States; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- History -- China; Methadone abuse -- United States; Opium abuse -- History -- Great Britain; Opium abuse -- History -- United States; Opium trade -- History -- Asia; Prostitution -- United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans; China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857-1861; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Personal narratives; Books
Notes: Statement of responsibility: [written collectively by a study group supported by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars].; Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 84); Acquisition: Purchase ; Lorne Blair rare books ; December 2013 ; 008740
Physical Description: Extent: [2] 84, [2] pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Type of Resource: Text; Still image; Cartographic
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: 23827097; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20488463; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d25c95e0-634d-0135-c7b5-2720b05a92fb

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