Drug policy /
This title takes a close look at the history of this country's drug policies, treatment options, and epidemics- alcohol, opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana, crack cocaine, and the opioid crisis- and includes documents related to contemporary issues such as corporate accountability, controversia...
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2020]
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| Series: | Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1.
- Publisher's note
- Editor's introduction
- Contributor list
- Full table of contents
- [Part 1]. Alcohol and antialcohol efforts over time
- "Wo to Drunkards"
- An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits
- The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and George Washington's Proclamation regarding the Whiskey Rebellion
- The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance
- Lincoln's "Temperance Address"
- Laws for the Suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops
- Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Carrie Nation on Her Life as a Temperance Crusader
- An Argument for Prohibition
- Billy Sunday: "Get on the Water Wagon"
- Volstead Act
- National Prohibition Law Hearings
- The Wickersham Commission Report on Crime and Prohibition
- Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book"
- [Part 2]. Drugs and drug abuse in earlier decades
- "Haunts of the Opium Smoker"
- Cocaine Toothache Drops Advertisement
- Pemberton's French Wine Coca
- Harrison Narcotic Act
- "Mother Sacrifices Children, Home, Reputation for Dope."
- Reefer Madness
- Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
- Senate Hearings on Narcotics Trafficking
- "Dope: Congress Encourages the Traffic"
- Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs
- [Part 3]. The emergence of public health
- A Historical Account of the Smallpox Inoculation in New England
- Invoice for Medical Supplies
- From "The Great American Fraud"
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Henry Ford on Smoking
- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
- Volume 2.
- [Part 4]. Drug policy and opinion - from the 1960s to today
- Address at the White House Conference on Drug Abuse
- Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert Defend Psilocybin Research
- Richard Nixon's Special Message to Congress on the Control of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
- Controlled Substances Act
- Section 202
- Interview with Dr. Robert DuPont
- "The World Heroin Problem"
- Richard Nixon's Message to Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
- Jimmy Carter's Drug Policy Message
- Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Message to the Nation
- "Sandinistas, Cocaine Traffic in U.S. Linked"
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
- Summary
- George Bush's Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy
- Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy
- Executive Summary
- On Combating Methamphetamine Abuse by Using an Earlier Strategy (for Quaalude Abuse)
- Board of Education v. Earls
- Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case
- Merida Initiative to Combat Illicit Narcotics and Reduce Organized Crime Authorization Act of 2008
- The Adderall Diaries
- 2010 National Drug Control Strategy
- Memorandum regarding the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act
- "Is the Era of OxyContin Abuse Over?"
- Department of Justice Statement on Opioid Abuse and the Heroin Epidemic
- One by One
- Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act
- [Part 5]. Public health and public opinion in Interaction
- "A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers"
- On the Polio Vaccine Situation
- Special Report: Smoking and Health
- Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings
- Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism
- Opening Statement in Congressional Hearings on Steroid Use in Baseball
- "Part D from Outer Space"
- California's Vaccination Law
- [Part 6]. Appendixes
- Chronological list
- Web resources
- Bibliography
- Index.