Myth‐making and opiate abuse: An early symbolic interactionist theory of addiction in the fieldwork of Alfred Lindesmith and its opposition

The personal files and notes from Alfred Lindesmith’s only excursion into the field (1935–1937) give a particularly informative view of addiction and addict mythmaking about opiates and opiate addiction. Lindesmith’s work, overseen by Herbert Blumer, was the first empirical validation of the symboli... View More