Book ID: CBB000655768

When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws (2015)

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Malleck, Daniel J. (Author)


UBC Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 354 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Review Shelley McKellar (2018) Review of "When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws". Pharmacy in History (pp. 96-97). unapi

Review Andrew Hathaway (2016) Review of "When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws". Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 118-119). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Black, Sara E.
Edoardo Pierini
Carrie Eisert
Marta González-García
Nencini, Paolo
Benjamin Breen
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Social History of Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
History and Technology
Publishers
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Walter de Gruyter
University of Pennsylvania Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Il Mulino
IASP Press
Concepts
Drug use
Opium and opium trade
Addictive behavior
Medicine
Pharmacology
Narcotics and drugs
People
Shaw, Frank
Sims, James Marion
Galen
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
16th century
Places
France
United States
Asia
Afghanistan
Bern (Switzerland)
Leiden (Netherlands)
Institutions
Nicholas Pty Ltd
University of Melbourne
Universiteit Leiden
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