The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic ControlThe American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relationz between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War up to the present. Originally published in 1973, and then in an expanded edition in 1987, this third edition contains a new chapter and preface that both address the renewed debate on policy and drug legislation from the end of the Reagan administration to the current Clinton administration. Here, Musto thoroughly investigates how our nation has dealt with such issues as the controversies over prevention programs and mandatory minimum sentencing, the catastrophe of the crack epidemic, the fear of a heroin revival, and the continued debate over the legalization of marijuana. |
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The Federal Assault on Addiction Maintenance | 121 |
The Narcotic Clinic | 151 |
The Troubled Twenties | 183 |
Marihuana and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics | 210 |
Federal Support of the Medical Approach | 230 |
The Return of Drug Toleration 19651985 | 245 |
Renewed Efforts at Control 19861997 | 275 |
The Dynamics of Narcotic Control | 294 |
Index | 391 |
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Page 18 - Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent any lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine from furnishing or prescribing in good faith for the use of...
Page 187 - The opinion cannot be accepted as authority for holding that a physician who acts bona fide and according to fair medical standards, may never give an addict moderate amounts of drugs for self-administration in order to relieve conditions incident to addiction.
Page 185 - But the quantities named in the indictment are charged to have been entrusted to a person known by the physician to be an addict without restraint upon him in its administration or disposition by anything more than his own weakened and perverted will.
Page 185 - ... intended to confine the immunity of a registered physician, in dispensing the narcotic drugs mentioned in the act, strictly within the appropriate bounds of a physician's professional practice, and not to extend it to include a sale to a dealer or a distribution intended to cater to the appetite or satisfy the craving of one addicted to the use of the drug.
Page 382 - I propose a national mental health program to assist in the inauguration of a wholly new emphasis and approach to care for the mentally ill. This approach relies primarily upon the new knowledge and new drugs acquired and developed in recent years which make it possible for most of the mentally ill to be successfully and quickly treated in their own communities and returned to a useful place in society.
Page 221 - This publicity tends to magnify the extent of the evil and lends color to an inference that there is an alarming spread of the improper use of the drug, whereas the actual increase in such use may not have been inordinately large.
Page 295 - Customary use of a certain drug came to symbolize the difference between that group and the rest of society; eliminating the drug might alleviate social disharmony and preserve old order.
Page 294 - American concern with narcotics is more than a medi— ^ cal or legal problem — it is in the fullest sense a political problem. The energy that has given impetus to drug control and prohibition came from profound tensions among socio-economic groups, ethnic minorities, and generations — as well as the psychological attraction of certain drugs.
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| Titre | The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control |
| Auteur | David F. Musto |
| Édition | 3 |
| Éditeur | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 019802892X, 9780198028925 |
| Longueur | 432 pages |
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