The myth of the addicted army : Vietnam and the modern war on drugs / Jeremy Kuzmarov.

Amherst, [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-285) and index.

Introduction : the politics of scapegoating -- "The press has done a tremendous disservice" : historical perspective -- Creating the myth of the "Nam junkie" : mass media and the rise of a drug scare -- Deconstructing the myth : the great national drug debate of the sixties and seventies -- "A generation of junkies" : the antiwar movement, the Democratic Party, and the myth -- The brass responds, part I : Nixon's war on drugs -- The brass responds, part II : from counterinsurgency to narco-insurgency in Southeast Asia -- "Get up you doped up bastard!" : the myth in Hollywood and popular television -- The crackdown : the Reagan revolution and the war on drugs -- The myth endures.