The influence of epidemiology on drug control policy

Bulletin on Narcotics

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-22

  Musto, D F ^a   Sloboda, Z ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic research and policy (roles and training); History of drug abuse and policy in the United States

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ALCOHOLISM; DRUG CONTROL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MONITORING; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 1542456392     PISSN: 0007523X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. D. F. Musto, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control, 3rd ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999).
2. Hamilton Wright to the Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, 16 April 1910, Wright Papers, United States National Archives and Records Administration, entry 36.
3. Hamilton Wright, "Report on the International Opium Commission and on the opium problem as seen within the United States and its possessions", Opium Problem: Message from the President of the United States, Sen. Doc. No. 377, Sixty-First Congress, Second Session, 21 February 1910.
4. U.S. v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 U.S. 394, decided 5 June 1916.
5. Special Committee of Investigation, appointed 25 March 1918, by the Secretary of the Treasury: Traffic in Narcotic Drugs (GPO, 1919).
6. U.S. v. Doremus, 249 U.S. 86, decided 2 March 1919; Webb et al v. U.S., 249 U.S. 96, decided 3 March 1919.
7. Hearings before the House Appropriations Committee, Treasury Department Appropriation Bill 1927, 2 December 1925, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, pp. 438-439.
8. "Saving youth from heroin and crime", Literary Digest, vol. 81, No. 32 (5 May 1924).
9. L. G. Kolb and A. G. DuMez, "The prevalence and trend of drug addiction in the United States and factors influencing it", Public Health Report, vol. 39, May 1924, pp. 1179-1204.
10. Personal communication to D. F. Musto, 30 May 1970.
11. D. F. Musto and P. Korsmeyer, The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981 (New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2002).
12. Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs, Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? Interim and Final Reports of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs (Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1961).
13. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Public Law 91-513, Ninety-First Congress, approved 27 October 1970.
14. Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690, One Hundredth Congress, Section 1005 "Development and Submission of National Drug Control Strategy", approved 18 November 1988.