Smack: Heroin and the American City September 30, 2008

Penn Associate Professor Depicts How New History of Heroin Explains What is Distinctly Urban About the King of Underworld Drugs. Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Smack chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users, beginning with the 1920s and ending with the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960s and 1970s.