"The Story of Uncle Sam the Pusher Man: The Story of How The US People Got Hooked on Morphine, Heroin and Methadone"

"The Story of Uncle Sam the Pusher Man: The Story of How The US People Got Hooked on Morphine, Heroin and Methadone"

Drug Addiction

The pamphlet explores the problem of drug addiction within the broader historical effort to profit off of addiction by corporate and governmental interests. The pamphlet states, "It is a history of the pain, greed, brutality and corruption that has gone hand in hand with the making of the United States into the largest and most powerful military and economic empire the world has ever known." Later, the pamphlet concludes, "The American drug epidemic is a product of American capitalism. In order to stop the product, it will be necessary to destroy the producer. When the American people create a social system dedicated to the elimination of human suffering, the problem of drug abuse will be solved."

Drug Research Project

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ca. late-1960s or early-1970s

pamphlet

paper