CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Prohibition Of Drugs, Controlled Substances Act, Chauvinism
29 Mar 2016
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Overview: consumption and distribution of drugs has mostly been regulated throughout history. Politics, witchcraft, law, social tolerance: psychoactive drugs had a live and let live" attitude mainly directed at them. Drug use in the nineteenth-century america: psychoactive substances were freely available. Medical drug use: med profession was in the extreme primitive state, opium came up and was literally a godsend. Surgeries before this were gruesome, and painful, if the person remained conscious. Opium declared most useful medicine at the doctor"s disposal. Administration of opiates was one of the few treatments capable of alleviating pain. Also seemed to cure a variety of illnesses. Otc containing opium, morphine, marijuana, cocaine were freely available. In the last decade of the 19th century persons needed prescription for drugs containing morphine or cocaine: cocaine-based soft" drinks. Popular bevarages contained one or more psychoactive substances, mainly cocaine. Mariani wine, coca tonic, stimulant and powerful nervous excitant.
