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History of Prescription Drugs. The abuse of prescription drugs in America goes back more than a hundred years to the abuse of laudanum, a mixture of opium and alcohol. This was an early remedy for pain, sleeplessness, anxiety, coughing and diarrhea.

In the 1. 80. 0s, laudanum was used by doctors across the country. But it was quite addictive. It was also part of an interesting division of addiction for people living in the 1. The usual laudanum addict was a Caucasian woman. Men had their own substance of addiction - alcohol. But women were not supposed to visit bars or saloons or be seen drinking so they could visit their doctors for their addictive substances. And they did, for problems with pregnancy, childbirth, menstrual cramps or emotional problems.

Morphine Use Grows. The commercial manufacture of morphine started in Germany in 1.

American Civil War. While there are conflicting accounts of the degree to which morphine contributed to cases of addiction after the war was over, it has been reported that there were ten million opium pills handed out to army surgeons during the war, and that morphine was widely used for the terrible shrapnel wounds suffered by soldiers. In fact, the doctor who invented the Coca Cola formula developed a morphine addiction during the Civil War and was looking for a solution. He added the recently- developed drug cocaine to his new drink and began to sell it at a pharmacy in Atlanta. Because there were few laws regulating the contents of foods or drugs, it was perfectly legal for him to do so.

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In fact, the act of “prescribing” drugs like cocaine or morphine was essentially up to the consumer. Morphine and cocaine injection kits, complete with the newly invented syringe and a supply of the medication, were available from Sears catalogs. Was Heroin a Prescription Drug? It may seem inappropriate to include heroin in a history of prescription drug abuse but it started out in 1. Bayer Company in Germany.

Like Oxycontin almost a century later, its addictive properties were overlooked—or concealed. And it was promoted as a remedy for morphine addiction. In fact, one philanthropic society even mailed heroin samples to morphine addicts.

In the late 1. 80. The reason these concoctions were called “patent” medicines is that they were supposedly covered by patent law protection and so their ingredients were secret. Opium, cocaine, cannabis, morphine, alcohol and other addictive substances were common ingredients, even in remedies for fussy or teething babies. Not all babies survived the remedies. In the early 1. 90. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1.

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1. 1. PAINKILLERS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about painkillers. Change partners often and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups.
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Harrison Narcotic Tax Act in 1. These two laws eliminated the casual distribution of opiates, alcohol, cannabis and cocaine. But they did nothing to stop the illicit abuse of drugs that were supposed to be distributed by prescription only. Of course, as these laws went into effect, some drugs dropped fully out of prescription drug status for many years. Watch Beyond The Call To Duty Mediafire.

Cocaine, marijuana, opium and heroin stopped being used medically for many years. But several decades later, marijuana would return to prescription status in the US and in Europe and elsewhere, pharmaceutical heroin would begin to be distributed through medical channels to those heroin addicts who were unable to comply with rehab programs despite repeated attempts. Watch Cutthroat Island Online Free HD. Cocaine, a stimulant, would essentially be replaced medically by methamphetamine and amphetamine which began to be prescribed in the 1.

In the 1. 93. 0s, the drug was available in an over- the- counter inhaler for asthma. It, too, began to be abused for non- medical purposes. Amphetamines were used by many countries during World War II to keep pilots and soldiers awake and energetic and to keep plant workers in mission- critical factories productive. It is said that the surplus of methamphetamine in Japan at the war’s end was freely distributed to the civilian population, leading to a surge in the number of addictions. By 1. 95. 4, there were more than 2.

Japan. Of course, methamphetamine and amphetamine soon began to be abused for non- medical purposes. Methamphetamine was so easy to make that in the second half of the Twentieth Century, small “mom- and- pop” illicit labs began to produce the drug. Amphetamine manufacture remained the job of the pharmaceutical companies, but in Europe and Asia, unscrupulous companies would begin to ship out millions of pills to the illicit market. But the big story of the Twentieth Century was the rise in prescribing and abuse of painkillers, with the thousands of overdose deaths and hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits to prevent even more overdose deaths. That story is told in Part 2 of History Prescription Drug Abuse. For parents or anyone, we have a special publication you can download, if you wish to know more on the abuse of this drug: here.

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