Secondary Source #1

Jonnes, Jill. Hep-cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's

Romance with Illegal Drugs. New York City, NY: Scribner, 1996. 1-510. Print. 19 October 2015.

Over the past couple of days, I have been doing some research in a few of the online databases that can be accessed through the University of Kentucky’s library webpage. When I first began searching, it was hard for me to find relevant information off of the databases because my searches were very narrow and there was not a lot of background information about a city in another state. So I had to think back to the time in the library where we learned how to search for information by not only researching specific details about the topics, but also by trying to expand our searches by zooming out and researching broader themes. This forced me to have to change the types of keywords I was searching under, in order to discover more useful texts. I ended up using the words “heroin” and “drug problem” to find a much lengthier list of sources that provided extensive background knowledge about the overall problem with heroin. The book I found is called, “Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: a history of America’s romance with illegal drugs” written by Jill Jonnes. In this book, the author follows the problem with drugs over decades of time to try to trace the negative spread of these illegal drugs. It goes into great detail about the many drug epidemics that we have seen in America from the late 1800’s to the the 2000’s. This source provides very important information and will be used as a great secondary source because it provides lots of insight on the patterns that can be found among the drug epidemics that have arose over time in the United States. It might also provide some insight on the best way to handle the situation that can help me form my call to action for my readers.