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Defining Documents in American History: Drug Policy

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributor List




Full Table of Contents




Alcohol and Antialcohol Efforts Over Time




“Wo to Drunkards”




An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits




The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and George Washington’s Proclamation regarding the Whiskey Rebellion




The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance




Lincoln’s “Temperance Address”




Laws for the Suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops




Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women’s Christian Temperance Union




Carrie Nation on Her Life as a Temperance Crusader




An Argument for Prohibition




Billy Sunday: “Get on the Water Wagon”




Volstead Act




National Prohibition Law Hearings




The Wickersham Commission Report on Crime and Prohibition




Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book”




Drugs and Drug Abuse in Earlier Decades




“Haunts of the Opium Smoker”




Cocaine Toothache Drops Advertisement




Pemberton’s French Wine Coca




Harrison Narcotic Act




“Mother Sacrifices Children, Home, Reputation for Dope.”




Reefer Madness




Marihuana Tax Act of 1937




Senate Hearings on Narcotics Trafficking




“Dope: Congress Encourages the Traffic”




Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs




The Emergence of Public Health




A Historical Account of the Smallpox Inoculation in New England




Invoice for Medical Supplies




From “The Great American Fraud”




Pure Food and Drug Act




Henry Ford on Smoking




Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938




Drug Policy and Opinion–From the 1960s to Today




Address at the White House Conference on Drug Abuse




Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert Defend Psilocybin Research




Richard Nixon’s Special Message to Congress on the Control of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs




Controlled Substances Act—Section 202




Interview with Dr. Robert DuPont




“The World Heroin Problem”




Richard Nixon’s Message to Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention and Control




Jimmy Carter’s Drug Policy Message




Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” Message to the Nation




“Sandinistas, Cocaine Traffic in U.S. Linked”




Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986—Summary




George Bush’s Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy




Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy—Executive Summary




On Combating Methamphetamine Abuse by Using an Earlier Strategy (for Quaalude Abuse)




Board of Education v. Earls




Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case




Merida Initiative to Combat Illicit Narcotics and Reduce Organized Crime Authorization Act of 2008




The Adderall Diaries




2010 National Drug Control Strategy




Memorandum regarding the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act




“Is the Era of OxyContin Abuse Over?”




Department of Justice Statement on Opioid Abuse and the Heroin Epidemic




One by One




Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act




Public Health and Public Opinion in Interaction




“A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers”




On the Polio Vaccine Situation




Special Report: Smoking and Health




Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings




Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism




Opening Statement in Congressional Hearings on Steroid Use in Baseball




“Part D from Outer Space”




California’s Vaccination Law




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography