HIS 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Timothy Leary, Opioid Epidemic, Anti-Communism
25 Dec 2017
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Alcohol and drugs i: before the 20th century. Positive view of alcohol health benefits as pain killer & nutrition. Being drunk is illegal, but drinking is okay. Drinking after revolution - mostly man drinking. Colonial era: traditional uses; drinking vs. drunkenness; what people drank & how much. From the revolution to c. 1830: from rum to whiskey, & lots of it: whiskey cheap, replace rum. Temperance movements of the 19th century: washingtonians - goal of total abstinence from alcohol. 1851, maine law - social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. 1870s, woman"s crusade, wctu - resistance from many groups. Benjamin rush, late 18th century - moral thermometer - moderation (drinking) From 1830s - middle-class, evangelical teetotalism - the pledge - effect on consumption. Opium - from 1830s, medicinal uses (laudanum, paregoric); middle-class women - children given for pain killer. Cocaine - from 1880s, wide variety of commercial products.
