Chapter 2. ‘Hop Heads’: The Effects of Criminalization, 1920–1945

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion 16
6. Chapter 2. ‘Hop Heads’: The Effects of Criminalization, 1920–1945 35
7. Chapter 3. ‘Hypes’: Using and Quitting, 1945–1961 66
8. Chapter 4. ‘After a Short Struggle’: Police Officers and Drug Users 92
9. Chapter 5. Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of Narcotic Control 115
10. Chapter 6. Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard Society 130
11. Chapter 7. Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to Treatment 151
12. Conclusion 159
13. Appendix 163
14. Notes 173
15. Bibliography 213
16. Index 233