David F. Musto, historian of U.S. drug policy, dies in China

David F. Muston (1936-2010) died of an apparent heart attack during a visit to China. In 1973 he pioneered the history of U.S. drug policy with the publication of The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control (Oxford, 3rd ed., 1999).   He also wrote or edited One Hundred Years of Heroin (Auburn, 2002), Drugs In America: A Documentary History (NYU, 2002), and The Quest for Drug Control (Yale, 2002). Amy Mittelman alerted me to the New York Times obituary

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/us/14musto.html?hpw