Malleck, Daniel J. (Author)
UBC Press
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.
...MoreReview 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).
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).
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