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Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
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Heroin -- Canada.
Heroin abuse -- Canada -- History.
Drug control -- Canada.
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Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
Heroin -- Canada.
Heroin abuse -- Canada -- History.
Drug control -- Canada.
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Heroin : an illustrated history / by Susan Boyd.
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Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
Fernwood Publishing, 2022.
Call #:
362
.2930971
B789h
Subjects
Heroin -- Canada.
Heroin abuse -- Canada -- History.
Drug control -- Canada.
ISBN:
9781773635163 (pbk.)
Description:
256 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Through the lens of harm reduction, Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the illegal overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and to the decades of resistance to these policies. Heroin, discovered in 1898, was heralded as an important medicine and successfully marketed as a pain reliever and cough suppressant. Until the early 1950s, heroin was prescribed for therapeutic use in Canada. Yet, illegal heroin use became the focus of drug prohibition advocates and law enforcement who painted it as highly addictive and destructive. Systemic racism was the impetus for our first anti-heroin laws. The race, gender and class of users influenced drug control which, by the 1930s, became the focus of law enforcement. Flawed ideas about heroin and people who used the drug shaped drug law and policy for decades--and continue today. The book is informed by documentary evidence and the experiences of people who use/used heroin, drug user unions, and harm reduction advocates. These sources highlight the structural violence of drug policy that uses prohibition and criminalization as the main response to drug use."--From publisher.
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