Courtwright, David T.,  1952- <br/><br/>
Dark paradise :  a history of opiate addiction in America / 
David T. Courtwright. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. ;  London :  Harvard University Press,  2001. 
 - 320p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> This text offers an interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history; the change in the pattern of opiate addiction - from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a criminal record. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674005853 (pbk.) :  £15.95 0674005856 (pbk.) :  £15.95 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Narcotic habit--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.2'93'0973