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Heroin is marked as a nonaddictive, safe substitute for morphine.
Prohibition Ends!
Federally funded drug rehabs greatly increase as does methadone treatment for heroin addicts.
The Volstead Act is passed and Prohibition begins, with the "nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."
Morphine and heroin are widely available.
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a harrowing account of the meat-packing industry. With support from President Teddy Roosevelt, Sinclair's work led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906: ending the use of opiates in the patent medicine industry and initiating action for public health against unsafe and unlabeled ingredients, "quackery," and misleading advertising. Patent medicines were medications with ingredients that had been granted patents, or protection. However, many medications were deadly without regulation of their ingredients.
The American Medical Association added addiction medicine to its designated specialties.
The FDA altered policy, now requiring the labels of tranquilizers to indicate that they are not appropriate for use to relieve the stress of every day life.
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Enthusiasm develops for the use of the coca plant and cocaine in treating morphine addiction and “feeling good.”
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed on December 17, 1914. The Harrison Act regulated and taxed the production, distribution, and importation of opiates, i.e., in order to curtail the nonmedical use of coca and opiates.
Although Supreme Court decisions said otherwise, federal drug enforcement arrested doctors for prescribing narcotics for addicts.
Medical marijuana and the legalization of marijuana becomes an increasingly popular political issue.
LSD is popularized by Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary.