{"product_id":"junkie-mythos-th-metzger-ltd-signed-ed","title":"Junkie Mythos | Th. Metzger | Ltd. Signed Ed. 33","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo drug ever promised more, or fell further. Heroin arrived in 1898 as God’s own medicine: a pure, perfected cure in which the medical profession placed its highest hopes. It ended as the emblem of defilement, disease, and death, the enslaver and despoiler of everything good. No other substance carries that mythic charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an age before antibiotics, heroin was developed and prescribed as an act of mercy for patients dying the slow, strangling death of tuberculosis. Yet within a few decades both the drug and its users were utterly demonized. The user was transformed from a helpless object of pity into evil incarnate. The junkie was the bastard spawn of American xenophobia and a feverish dread of moral pollution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eJunkie Mythos: The Cult of Purity and the Birth of Heroin\u003c\/em\u003e, Th. Metzger traces how the junkie became a fixture of American folklore masquerading as science: the racialized outsider lurking at the edge of the national dream. The junkie is at once subhuman and superhuman — a vicious destroyer of children, a sexual predator, an agent of social decay. Born of religious mania, he remains an unholy ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description rte\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"is-initialized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"station-tabs-0\" class=\"station-tabs mod-hide-focus is-ready\" role=\"tablist\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"station-tabs-content is-active\" id=\"st-description_0-0\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"station-tabs-content-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned and numbered hardback edition limited to 33 total, less than 25 offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Underworld Amusements","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52404786331931,"sku":null,"price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/0461\/0117\/files\/JunieMythos-ThMetzger.png?v=1782478874","url":"https:\/\/underworldamusements.com\/products\/junkie-mythos-th-metzger-ltd-signed-ed","provider":"Underworld Amusements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}