HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moral Panic, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, European Canadian
20 Nov 2018
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Introduction: drugs not classified according to chemical properties or effects, e. g. addictiveness, social conditions key, substance previous seen as helpful or neutral monstrous once criminalized and vice versa. Interplay between perception of drugs, those who use them, and those who are imagined to use them. Because morphine was used by white canadians and doctors: 1920s moral panic, chinese blamed for destroying youth of canada via drugs, call for ban on drugs and chinese migrants. It is undermining our boyhood and cutting away the moral fibre of our girls. It is turning our people into criminals and imbeciles . Harrison act, 1914 (usa) / opium and narcotic act, 1929 (canada: gave government authority to regulate opiates, coca derivatives, etc, sale limited to doctors and pharmacists, doctors only permitted to prescribe on medical grounds . Addiction not a disease , so maintenance treatment could land doctors in prison.
