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History of Drug Addiction (28)

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1937​–1969Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.
1973The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
1982Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.
1984Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.
1989Historia general de las drogas.
1994Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
1996Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.
1999Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.
1999Cocaine: Global histories.
1999The Nazi war on cancer.
2001Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
2001The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
2002Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.
2002Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.
2002The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.
2002One hundred years of heroin. Edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr.
2004Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.
2004Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.
2005Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
2008On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.
2008Cocaine: Global drug.
2010Addiction: A reference encyclopedia. Edited by Howard Padwa and Jacob Cunningham.
2010Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.
2011An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.
2012Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.
2013Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
2014Rum maniacs: Alcoholic insanity in the Early American Republic.
2016Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.