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Part I - The
Opiates: Heroin, Morphine, Opium, and Methadone
Chapter 1 - Nineteenth Century America - "a dope fiends paradise"
Chapter 2 - Opiates for pain relief, for tranquilization, and for pleasure
Chapter 3 - What kinds of people used opiates?
Chapter 4 - Effects of opium, morphine and heroin on addicts
Chapter 5 - Some eminent narcotics addicts
Chapter 6 - Opium smoking is outlawed
Chapter 7 - The
Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
Chapter 8 - The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
Chapter 9 - Tightening up the Harrison Act
Chapter 10 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 1) Heroin is an addicting drug
Chapter 11 -
Why our narcotics laws have failed: 2) The economics of the black market
Chapter 12 -
The heroin "overdose" mystery and other occupational hazards of heroin
addiction
Chapter 13 -
Supplying heroin legally to addicts
Chapter 14 -
Enter methadone maintenance
Chapter 15 -
How well does methadone maintenance work?
Chapter 16 -
Methadone side effects
Chapter 17 -
Why methadone maintenance works
Chapter 18 -
Methadone maintenance spreads
Chapter 19 -
The future of methadone maintenance
Chapter 20 -
Heroin on the youth drug scene - and in Vietnam
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Part II - Caffeine
Chapter 21 -
Early history
Chapter 22 -
Recent findings
Part III - Nicotine
Chapter 23 -
Tobacco
Chapter 24 -
The Case of Dr. Sigmund Freud
Chapter 25 -
Nicotine as an addicting drug
Chapter 26 -
Cigarettes - and the 1964 report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee
Chapter 27 - A
program for the future
Part IV - Alcohol, Barbiturates, Tranquilizers
Chapter 28 -
The barbiturates for sleep and sedation
Chapter 29 -
Alcohol and barbiturates: Two ways of getting drunk
Chapter 30 - Popularizing the barbiturates as "thrill pills"
Chapter 31 -
The nonbarbiturate sedatives and the "minor" tranquilizers
Chapter 32 -
Should alcohol be prohibited?
Chapter 33 -
Why alcohol should not be prohibited
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Part V - Coca, Cocaine, Amphetamines, "Speed"
Chapter 34 -
Coca Leaves
Chapter 35 -
Cocaine
Chapter 36 -
The amphetamines
Chapter 37 -
Enter the "speed freak"
Chapter 38 -
How speed was popularized
Chapter 39 -
The Swedish experience
Chapter 40 -
Should the amphetamines be prohibited?
Chapter 41 -
Back to cocaine again
Chapter 42 - A
slightly hopeful postscript
Part VI - Inhalants, solvents and glue-sniffing
Chapter 43 -
The historical antecedents of glue-sniffing
Chapter 44 -
How to launch a nationwide drug menace
Part VII - LSD and LSD-like drugs
Chapter 45 -
Early use of LSD-like drugs
Chapter 46 -
LSD is discovered
Chapter 47 -
LSD and psychotherapy
Chapter 48 -
Hazards of LSD psychotherapy
Chapter 49 -
Early nontherapeutic use of LSD
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Chapter 50 -
How LSD was popularized, 1962-1969
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Chapter 51 -
How the hazards of LSD were augmented, 1962-1969
Chapter 52 -
LSD today: The search for a rational perspective
Part VIII - Marijuana and Hashish
Chapter 53 -
Marijuana in the Old World
Chapter 54 -
Marijuana in the New World
Chapter 55 -
Marijuana and Alcohol Prohibition
Chapter 56 -
Marijuana is outlawed
Chapter 57 -
America discovers marijuana
Chapter 58 -
Can marijuana replace alcohol?
Chapter 59 -
The 1969 marijuana shortage and "Operation Intercept"
Chapter 60 -
The Le Dain Commission Report
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Part IX - The Drug Scene
Chapter 61 -
Scope of Drug Use
Chapter 62 -
Prescription, over-the-counter, and black-market drugs
Chapter 63 -
The Haight-Ashbury, its predecessors and its satellites
Chapter 64 -
Why a youth drug scene?
Chapter 65 -
First steps toward a solution: innovative approaches by indigenous
institutions
Chapter 66 -
Alternatives to the drug experience
Chapter 67 -
Emergence from the drug scene
Part X - Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 68 -
Learning from past mistakes: six caveats
Chapter 69 -
Policy Issues and Recommendations
Chapter 70 - A
Last Word
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Alexander DeLuca, M.D.