HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Morphine, European Canadian, Moral Panic
2 Jan 2019
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Drugs not classi ed according to chemical properties or effects (ex. Substances previously 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. Opium before the 20th c patent med pain reliever. Key ingredient in many new medicines being developed. Unregulated drug markets = people who produced drugs/medications relied on opium. 18/19th c: britain colonizing earth south asia = huge supplies of opium. British had potentially valuable commodity but markets for opium started to close themselves off (ex. China tried to ban opium/prevent from being imported = worried about westernization) Britain went to war with china twice to force chinese to open borders to allow opium in. Other poppy derivatives (morphine) similarly lauded, but addiction fears arise among patients, mds. First concerns about addiction have to do with morphine reported sensations that they could not stop (craving, compulsions)
