When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws - Couverture rigide

Malleck, Dan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774829192 ISBN 13 : 9780774829199

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dan Malleck is a professor of health sciences at Brock University, where he also serves as director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. His publications include Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44 and When Good Drugs Go Bad: Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774829192
• ISBN 13: 9780774829199
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
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