When Good Drugs Go Bad Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws
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In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan Malleck reveals how different forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and set the course for the drug laws that exist today. As this book shows, social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, concern about the morality and future of the nation, and a burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780774829205 |
Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press |
Imprint: | UBCPress |
Pub date: | 15 Feb 2016 |
DEWEY: | 344.7104233 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xi, 305 |
Weight: | 482g |
Height: | 153mm |
Width: | 226mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |