PSY396H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Controlled Substances Act, Problem Gambling, Drug Withdrawal
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Psy396: chapter 9: drug abuse and addiction (lecture 8) Alcohol is a naturally occurring product of sugar fermentation in yeast. Alcohol and caffeine were widely used, tobacco chewing was becoming popular, opium was available for pain relief and the now illicit drugs were used due to few drug control laws. Alcohol temperance movement promoted abstention from hard liquor for moderate beer/wine. Advances in chemistry during 19th century made it possible to purify the primary active ingredient of opium (morphine) and coca (cocaine); the hypodermic syringe for better injection. Increasing availability of purified drugs with lack of drug control laws. Without federal regulations governing the marketing, distribution or purchase of these, sales increased drastically and thus the federal government became increasingly involved in controlling the commercialization of drugs. Pure food and drug act, harrison act (opioid and cocaine use), prohibition amendment (banned alcohol use unless for medicinal reasoning), marijuana tax act, controlled substances act.
