PSY 3142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Methamphetamine, Controlled Substances Act, Marihuana Tax Act Of 1937

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3142
• Professor: Philip Wall

Document Summary

The 2011 national survey on drug abuse and health estimated that 8. 7% of the us population were current users of illicit drugs. Legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol are consumed even more widely. Most psychoactive substances such as nicotine, ca eine, morphine, cocaine, and thc, are made by plants and were available to ancient peoples. 200 years ago, only alcohol, tobacco, and opium were available. The alcohol temperance movement that culminated in prohibition equated drug use with criminal behaviour. Advances in chemistry which created morphine from opium and cocaine from coca create more addictive and strong substances. Development of hypodermic syringes allied injection into the bloodstream. Heroin rst used by bayer labs in 1874 and was rst marketed as a non-addictive cough medicine. Medicalization of drug addiction in the second half of the twentieth century: Drug addiction seen as a disease and should be treated by a medical establishment. Alcoholism was declared a disease by the who and ama.