Book ID: CBB183472827

La minaccia stupefacente. Storia politica della droga in Italia (2017)

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Nencini, Paolo (Author)


Il Mulino


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 360 pp.
Language: Italian

Paese non produttore, l'Italia rimase al riparo dalla diffusione della droga fino alla Grande Guerra, quando la cocaina si infiltrò nei locali alla moda delle grandi città. Ciò non le impedì tuttavia di partecipare al processo diplomatico che pose le basi del controllo internazionale sul traffico degli stupefacenti, non solo per accrescere il proprio prestigio internazionale, ma anche per la posizione geografica, che la esponeva al transito tra le zone di produzione e i mercati europei e nordamericani, traffico al quale già allora partecipava attivamente la malavita italoamericana. Iniziò così una scalata di provvedimenti repressivi che continuò nel secondo dopoguerra, non riuscendo tuttavia a impedire che il traffico di stupefacenti raggiungesse livelli di efficienza sempre maggiori. Attingendo a fonti d'archivio politico diplomatiche e alla letteratura sanitaria, il libro ricostruisce per la prima volta le vicende della droga in Italia tra la fine dell'Ottocento - quando era già ben radicato l'uso voluttuario di oppio, morfina e cocaina al di là delle Alpi - e il 1970, quando esplose la grande epidemia di abuso di eroina. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… A non-producing country, Italy remained safe from the spread of drugs until the Great War, when cocaine infiltrated the fashionable areas of big cities. However, this did not prevent this country from participating in the diplomatic process that laid the foundations of international drug trafficking control, not only to increase its international prestige, but also due to its geographical position, which exposed it to transit between production areas and markets European and North American, trafficking in which the Italian-American mafias were already actively involved. Thus began a climb of repressive measures that continued after World War II, but failed to prevent drug trafficking from reaching ever greater levels of efficiency. Drawing on political diplomatic archival sources and medical literature, the book reconstructs for the first time the vicissitudes of drugs in Italy in the late nineteenth century - when the use of opium, morphine and cocaine was already well established beyond the Alps - and 1970, when the great epidemic of heroin abuse exploded.]

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Authors & Contributors
Black, Sara E.
Julia, Skelly
Bruce K. Alexander
Lindemann, Anna
Metlay, Grischa Jeremy
Wall, L. Lewis
Concepts
Addictive behavior
Narcotics and drugs
Drug use
Medicine and politics
Medicine
Psychotropic drugs
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
France
Germany
Philadelphia, PA
Bern (Switzerland)
Switzerland
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