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Drugs Against Men (1939)

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This is a fairly straight-forward report on the growing drug menace in the U.S.–it is a little melodramatic in places but beyond that it is a reasoned and sensible account of the terrors of addiction and its social cost. And as the cover art suggests, this short pamphlet by Dr. S.S. Weinberger (which was published in 1939) the work takes it aims mostly at the social and family damages associated with drug use. 

This is a detail from the full cover, as so:

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[As it turns out this is a rare pamphlet, with no copies located in the 150-million-item library cataloging tool, WorldCat.]

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