Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research

Discovering Addiction Brings The History Of Human And Animal Experimentation In Addiction Science Into The Present With A Wealth Of Archival Research And Dozens Of Oral-history Interviews With Addiction Researchers. Professor Campbell Examines The Birth Of Addiction Science---the National Academy Of Sciences's Project To Find A Pharmacological Fix For Narcotics Addiction In The Late 1930s---and Then Explores The Human And Primate Experimentation Involved In The Succeeding Studies Of The Opium Problem, Revealing How Addiction Science Became Brain Science By The 1990s. Framing The Opium Problem : Protoscientific Concepts Of Addiction -- Creatures Of Habit : Feeding The Junkie Monkeys Of Michigan -- A New Deal For The Drug Addict : Addiction Research Moves To Lexington, Kentucky -- The Man With The Syringe : Pain And Pleasure In The Experimental Situation -- The Tightrope Between Coercion And Seduction : Characterizing The Ethos Of Addiction Research At Lexington -- The Great Hue And Cry : Prison Reform And The Ethics Of Human Subjects Research -- The Behavior Is Always Right : Behavioral Pharmacology Comes Of Age -- The Hijacked Brain : Reimagining Addiction. Nancy D. Campbell. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 263-286) And Index (pages 287-301).