COGS 174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Plan Colombia, Ketamine, Fenfluramine
4 Sep 2016
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Cogs 174 lecture 2 history of drugs (cont. Factors that impacted the crease in drug use and drug reform: immigration, urbanization, technology, lack of knowledge. Temperance movement: people were passionate about removing alcohol from society, prohibition not very successful leads to more criminal activity. Like night and day: 50s and 60s explosion of drug use/abuse: punitive approach in the 1950s: reaction to soldiers coming home form war who have their own addiction that they picked up from the war. Mandatory minimum sentencing for drug use: tend to be focused on minorities more than whites. Methadone maintenance clinics: helps heroin addicts (for free) Narcotic addict rehabilitation act (1996: voluntary & mandatory treatment. Drug control in a period of rising use (1962 1980: white house conference on narcotics and drug abuse. Alternatives to prison sentencing: 1960s: rise in lsd and marijuana use (as a protest to the system/war, merging on counterculture and drug culture.
