The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960

New York City: Blast Books (book, anthology, 1st), 1991.
8.25" x 5.125" x 6.25", 265 pages, softcover.

The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960, edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise, published by Blast Books (New York City) in 1991.

William Burroughs contributes the Foreword to this book about drugs, pp. ix to xv. This is a version of "Just Say No to Drug Hysteria" which was "published in a slightly different version in High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, edited by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg.

The cover art is by Burroughs as well (“Burn Unit”, 1987).

There is also a blurb by Burroughs on the back cover: "This book belongs on the shelf of every Johnson in America."

This copy was formerly owned by Kevin Ring of Beat Scene Press, and acquired directly from them.