Preface

1. The American Disease

2. Diplomats and Reformers

3. The Harrison Act

4. The Search for Cures

5. State and Local Narcotic Control

6. The Federal Assault on Addiction Maintenance

7. The Narcotic Clinic Era

8. The Troubled Twenties

9. Marihuana and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics

10 Federal Support of the Medical Approach

11. The Dynamics of Narcotic Control

12. The Return of Drug Toleration, 1965-1985

Abbreviations for Manuscript Sources
AP    Papers of Harry J. Anslinger. Deposited in the Pennsylvania Historical Collections of Pennsylvania State University.
BP    Papers of the Rt. Rev. Charles IT Brent. Deposited in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
BCR Records of the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture. Deposited in the National Archives; all references are to file no. 140 of Record Group 97.
BuP Papers of Dr. Willis P. Butler, Shreveport, La.
JDR Records of the Justice Department. Deposited in the National Archives; all references are to box 7 of Record Group 60.
PHSR Records of the Public Health Service. Deposited in the National Archives; all references are to Record Group,9o, file no. 2123.
RPU Records of the Prohibition Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury. Now in the Justice Department, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
WP Papers of Dr. Hamilton Wright. Deposited in the National Archives, Record Group 43, "Records of United States Delegations to the International Opium Commission and Conferences, 1909--1913" ( entries 33 through 46 ), and "Rec-ords of Hamilton Wright" ( entries 47 through 52).