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Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the
nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug
use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act
limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans
used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some
tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but
neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of
restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published
extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth
century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction
became a major public health issue, commentators typically
sympathized with white, middle-class drug users, while criticizing
such use by poor or working-class people and people of color. When
habituation was associated with middle-class morphine users, few
advocated for restricted drug access. By the 1910s, as use was
increasingly associated with poor young men, support for
regulations increased. In outlawing users' access to habit-forming
drugs at the national level, a public health problem became a
larger legal and social problem, one with an enduring influence on
American drug laws and their enforcement.
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the
nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug
use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act
limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans
used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some
tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but
neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of
restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published
extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth
century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction
became a major public health issue, commentators typically
sympathized with white, middle-class drug users, while criticizing
such use by poor or working-class people and people of color. When
habituation was associated with middle-class morphine users, few
advocated for restricted drug access. By the 1910s, as use was
increasingly associated with poor young men, support for
regulations increased. In outlawing users' access to habit-forming
drugs at the national level, a public health problem became a
larger legal and social problem, one with an enduring influence on
American drug laws and their enforcement.
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