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Author: Mills, James
Title: Panic in Needle Park
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York
Pages: 212 pp.
Date: 1966
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Life styles
Annotation:When the supply of heroin in New York is drastically curtailed in 1964, two young junkies are caught in the "panic" and search the world of addicts for a fix.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Selby, Hubert, Jr.
Title: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Publisher: Grove, New York
Pages: 304 pp.
Date: 1964
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Life styles
Annotation:Although the book is principally about the sexual underworld of New York, it also explores the drug use and addiction prominent in that seamy life of violent survival.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.






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