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Journal Article
Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal Drug Control
2015
Overview
A century after the Harrison Narcotic Act took effect in the United States, its bias against maintenance therapy continues to hinder medical efforts to ameliorate the effects of our country's latest narcotic-addiction epidemic.
Just over a century ago, in March 1915, the Harrison Narcotic Act took effect, requiring anyone who imported, produced, sold, or dispensed “narcotics” (at that time meaning coca- as well as opium-based drugs) to register, pay a nominal tax, and keep detailed records (see figure). With such records, officials could better enforce existing laws, such as those requiring sale by prescription only. They could also prosecute unregistered narcotics distributors such as saloonkeepers and street peddlers. The intent was to keep narcotic transactions within legitimate medical channels. For more than a decade, U.S. reformers and diplomats had been urging this course . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Analgesics, Opioid - agonists
/ Analgesics, Opioid - history
/ Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use
/ Drug and Narcotic Control - history
/ Drug and Narcotic Control - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Government Regulation - history
/ Humans
/ Legislation, Drug - economics
/ Opioid-Related Disorders - history
/ Opioid-Related Disorders - prevention & control
/ Opioid-Related Disorders - therapy
/ Practice Patterns, Physicians' - history
/ Practice Patterns, Physicians' - legislation & jurisprudence
