So LIFE Magazine described a cultural ... its legalization were not so different in the late 1960s than they are today. Opponents viewed the drug not only as a public health concern, but as ...

Can we explain the disparate response to the “black” heroin epidemic of the 1960s, in which its use and violent crime were commingled in the public consciousness, and the white heroin ...

Siff draws on the favorable coverage of the drug in the Luce magazines as well as the letters ... The Luces’ role in spreading LSD wasn’t lost on 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman, Siff writes.

low-class kind of drug." By the 1960s and 1970s—heroin's first heyday—users were thought to be mostly entirely minorities from disadvantaged backgrounds. Numerous studies published in the ...

"It was all very middle-class," she recalled in a 1993 interview with Q magazine ... It was the 1960s, man. "I was doing heroin," she revealed. "I was taking a serious addictive substance.

By Abby Goodnough BALTIMORE — Heroin has ravaged this city since the early 1960s, fueling desperation and crime that remain endemic in many neighborhoods. But lately, despite heroin’s long ...