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Addiction in Early America


A Century of American Narcotic Policy - Treating Drug Problems

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, government involvement was minimal. Drug use was largely a private matter, as was drug treatment. Addiction was ...

A Brief History of Opioids in the U.S.

In the mid-19th century, another advance increased the likelihood of opiate addiction: hypodermic medication. Unlike pills, powders, and ...

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

Opium's history in the United States is as old as the nation itself. During the American Revolution, the Continental and British armies used ...

Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and Opiate Addiction

His research uncovers how the Civil War sparked an epidemic of drug addiction among the war's survivors—America's first opioid crisis—and ...

Doctoral candidate explores the nation's first opioid epidemic

America's first opioid epidemic took ... “So, in a lot of ways, the Civil War-era opiate addiction epidemic really was America's original opioid crisis.

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

The stimulant amphetamine became popular in 1920s in the medical community, where it was used for raising blood pressure, enlarging the nasal passages, and ...

Drug Abuse Research in Historical Perspective - NCBI

The association of opium with Chinese immigrants, cocaine with African Americans, and morphine addiction with careless physicians prompted more and more ...

The “Great Risk” of “Opium Eating”: How Civil War-Era Doctors ...

Not only was opiate addiction dangerous and unhealthy, resulting in thousands of overdose deaths between the 1860s and the early twentieth ...

America's first opioid crisis began after the Civil War - Washington Post

Tens of thousands of sick and injured soldiers became addicted, new research says. ... When Frances Goolrick returned to her home on Capitol Hill ...

1 American Use of Opiates, 1776–1842 - Oxford Academic

Many white Americans in the Early Republic used opiates medically, and while some became dependent on them, addiction was misunderstood, which led to tensions ...

Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath

Opiates were some of the most widely used medicines in 19th-century America. During the Civil War, surgeons administered morphine injections and opium pills to ...

Heroin Crisis (1898-1922): Topics in Chronicling America: Introduction

In the early 1900s, Americans began to use and become addicted to the narcotic drug heroin. This guide provides access to materials related ...

UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1953 Issue 2 - 003

... addiction to these two drugs. This enthusiasm for the new drug is best ... America the chewing of coca leaves is an old habit.[25] Of the so-called ...

Illicit Drugs in America: History, Impact on Women and Infants, and ...

Despite male domination of the "drug scene" during the twentieth century, the number of female addicts has increased dramatically in recent years, giving rise ...

Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America on JSTOR

The pattern of opiate addiction in the United States has undergone a transformation so profound that it has altered the very ways in which we think and feel ...

Opium in America - Selected Papers of William L. White

Representing these various forms of medicinal opium were three opium products that began the history of narcotic addiction in. America: Laudanum, Dover's Powder ...

Addiction in Early America | C-SPAN.org

Panelists talked about how different social groups used and abused laudanum, opium, and alcohol in the 19th century.

The History of Opioid Addiction - The Long Opioid Drug Crisis

The morphine shots contained opioids. At least 1 in 200 early American people were hooked on this substance and, unknown to them at the time, ...

Opioid crisis: addiction, overprescription, and insufficient primary ...

... drug to treat opioid overdose, with the potential of preventing deaths. On March 29, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration approved naloxone as a nasal ...

2 American Drug Use Quietly Escalates, 1842–1867

Americans' use of opiates escalated between 1842 and 1867, and while public attention to the topic was sporadic, commentators typically sympathized with white, ...