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Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency in the United States before the 1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act. The book discusses how drug use and addiction were viewed differently…