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Contents Foreword to the 1989 Edition by Claude Brown xi Acknowledgments xiv Alphabetical Table of Narratives xv Introduction: The Classic Era of Narcotic Control 1 Part One: Becoming an Addict 45 1. Turned On 47 2. Hooked 63 3. Hop 77 4. The Needle 103 Part Two: In the Life 129 5. Scoring 131 6. Hustling 144 7. Hooking 159 8. Dealing 178 9. Working 207 10. Creating 231 11. Busted 249 Part Three: Treatment 277 12. The Clinics 279 13. Lexington and Its Discontents 296 14. Methadone Maintenance 319 Epilogue to the 1989 Edition: From Methadone to the Drug War 344 Epilogue to the 2012 Paperback Edition: America’s Longest War 369 Appendix: The Interviews 385 Glossary 393 Select Bibliography 401 Index 403 [3.229.122.112] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 12:31 GMT) Illustrations PHOTOGRAPHS Following Page 116 Two Drunkards Addicts before and after Imprisonment Roundup ofSuspected Narcotic-Law Violators Opium Seizure and Defendants Opium Pipes and Paraphernalia Ghetto Heroin Transaction Opium Smoker Taking a Draw "Cooking" Crude Opium Overdose Victim Syrettes ofMorphine Tartrate Dead Mainliner's Arm The Classic-Era Addict: Hollywood Version The Classic-Era Addict: Official Version Following Page 265 In the Life Billie Holiday and Freddie Greene The Man: Harry Anslinger Anslinger Inspects Stockpile ofOpium The Killer Drug Retail Marijuana Wholesale Marijuana Concealed Heroin x ILLUSTRATIONS Smuggling Techniques Arnold Rothstein Louis "Lepke" Buchalter Lucky Luciano Making a Buy The Hard Line Lexington Dr. and Mrs. Willis P. Butler Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander TABLES 1. Opiate Addiction Estimates for Various Groups in the United States in 1910 7 2. Onset ofAddiction by Race and Sex for Forty-one Interviewees Addicted before 1965 16 FIGURES 1. Indices ofBlack Narcotic Use 15 2. History of Narcotic Addiction in the United States 20 3. Foreign and Domestic Prices for Opium and Heroin 180 ...