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 112 300 CG 010 073 TITLE INSTiT]TION REPORT NO POB AT NOTE AVAILABLE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS Diehl, Digby Drug Themes in Abuse Research Documentation Nat.onal Inst DHEW-A Now 7# 50p. DM-75-1 Superintendent Office, Fiction. Natlone/ Institute on Drug Issues Associates, Los Angeles, Calif.: on Drug Abuse (DHEW/PH$), Rockville, of D(>cuments, U.S. Washi:g%on, D.C. 25 Government Printing MF-$0.76 HC-$!.95 Plus Postage � Content Ana12sis; ,Drug Abuse ,Ficticn; � Literature Reviews Social Attitudes Literature; ABSIRACT This essay is a surwe of selected literar works of fiction with drug-related thematic content. The themes represented in the surve reflect popular American attitudes toar4 4rugs from pre-World ar II through the 1970's. he roots of these themes, beginning with th centur French cultural attitudes are explained. The subject has been treated broadly there is no attempt to analyze literarff characters who used drugs (for example, Sherlock Holmes), nor to consider the effect of drugs on the creativity cf anff authors who may have used drugs. An annotated bibliography of novels is included. (Author) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished materials not aailable from other sources. EICmakes everff effort to otain %he best copff available. Nevertheless, items of marginal zeproducibilitff are often encountered and this afects the ualitff of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available via %he ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). .DRS is not responsible for the qualit of the original document. Reproductions supplied by .DBS are the best that can be made from the original.