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02535aam a22003738i 4500 001 7C67A0C80CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220726010056 008 211026s2022 mbca b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1773635166 020 $a 9781773635163 035 $a (OCoLC)1280405249 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn--- 055 0 $a HV5822 H4 B69 2022 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Boyd, Susan C., $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Heroin : $b an illustrated history / $c by Susan Boyd. 263 $a 202201 264 1 $a Winnipeg ; $b Fernwood Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Heroin $z Canada. 650 0 $a Heroin $z Canada $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Heroin abuse $z Canada. 650 0 $a Drug control $z Canada $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Boyd, Susan C., 1953- $t Heroin. $d Winnipeg ; Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, 2022 $z 9781773635347 $z 9781773635347 $w (OCoLC)1282647576 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203071215.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7C67A0C80CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search