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A Century of American Narcotic Policy


A Century of American Narcotic Policy - Treating Drug Problems

American narcotic policy has been highly variable, having passed through at least four major stages during the past 100 years.

Selected Papers of William L. White - Chestnut Health Systems

drive for a policy of strict federal drug control. ... Alfred Lindesmith, who emerged as the most vocal mid-twentieth century critic of American Narcotic Control.

Charles Terry, the Opium Problem, and American Narcotic Policy

who pioneered narcotic maintenance in early twen- tieth-century America. He also coauthored (with. Mildred Pellens) The Opium Problem, a book that has been ...

Inside the Story of America's 19th-Century Opiate Addiction

After the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed this interpretation of the law in 1919, cities across the nation opened narcotic clinics for the addicted ...

The Cycles of American Drug Policy - UNF Digital Commons

More than any other person, he inspired and shaped international narcotic control. But Brent, a liberal Episcopalian, parted company with his evangelical ...

Office of National Drug Control Policy | The White House

ONDCP coordinates across 19 federal agencies and oversees a $41 billion budget as part of a whole-of-government approach to addressing addiction and the ...

The Influence of White Exceptionalism on Drug War Discourse

Courtwright, A Century of American Narcotic Policy, in 2 TREATING DRUG. PROBLEMS. 1. (Dean. R. Gerstein. &. Henrick. J. Harwood eds.,. 1992), http://www.ncbi.

Ideas Governing Drug Policy - Treating Drug Problems - NCBI

Libertarian ideas were, and still are, the default value in American political life; thus, minimal policy, expressed as a practical lack of interest in the ...

The Buyers - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs - PBS

This alarming statistic, combined with emerging evidence linking heroin addiction to crime, pushed the heroin problem to the front of Nixon's drug policy agenda ...

Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal ...

Adams judged that 150,000 Americans had fallen victim to the “opium-habit,” not counting those who had brought it on themselves by smoking the ...

A Century of International Drug Control

Commission”, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 3, No. 3, July ... viewed as the foundation of 20th century US drug policy.197. The ...

Drug War History - Drug Policy Alliance

The First U.S. Anti-Drug Law Targeted Chinese Immigrant Communities. The San Francisco Opium Den Ordinance of 1875 made it a misdemeanor to maintain or visit ...

A Drug Policy for the 21st Century - Obama White House

Drug Policy 101 · Training health care professionals to intervene early before addiction develops. · Expanding access to treatment. · Taking a "smart on crime" ...

Drug Policy - DEA.gov

Controlling Drugs or Other Substances through Formal Scheduling. The CSA also provides a mechanism for substances to be controlled (added to or transferred ...

War on drugs - Wikipedia

The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, foreign assistance, and military ...

America's War on Drugs — 50 Years Later

This month marks the 50th anniversary of America's War on Drugs, a government-mandated operation beginning in the early 1970s that has completely failed.

The War on Drugs as Structural Racism - Penn LDI

The panel agreed that the earlier War on Drugs criminalized drug use for Black and Latino communities while the current opioid epidemic policy ...

Against Drug Prohibition | American Civil Liberties Union

... the century, many drugs were made illegal when a mood ... drug control policy are at least as harmful as the effects of drugs themselves.

Through the Past Darkly: The Politics and Policies of America's Drug ...

Notes ; Kinder, Douglas Clark, “Bureaucratic Cold Warrior: Harry J. Anslinger and Illicit Narcotics Traffic,” ; Kinder, and Walker, William O. · III, ; Moore, ...

Drugs and Drug Policy in America: A Documentary History

This collection of over 250 primary documents deals with debates over the use and abuse of drugs, laws controlling drugs in the United States, and drug ...