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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced / ˈ s æ m s ə /) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
By the late 20th century smoking had sharply declined among better educated individuals. [61] However, in the early 21st century vaping an electronic cigarette became popular among teenagers. [62] Race: In 1900 life expectancy at birth was 47.6 years for white babies and 33.0 years for Blacks. In 1970 it was 71.7 and 65.3.
Poster for the Hygiene Congress in Hamburg, 1912 "Sex hygiene" is contrasted with "false modesty" in this frontispiece to an early 20th-century book.. In the United States, the social hygiene movement was an attempt by Progressive Era reformers in the late 19th and early 20th century to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use ...
Pentecostal denominations in North America; Jewish Science, early 20th century; Rosicrucian Fellowship (Esoteric Christianity, Western Theosophy, Western mystery tradition), 1909; Moorish Science Temple of America, 1913; Reconstructionist Judaism, 1922; Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
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The social fraternities would create small Pan-Hellenic organizations in various cities in the late 1890s and early 20th century. George D. Kimball of Sigma Alpha Epsilon would take initiative and call for a true national Pan-Hellenic group during a meeting of the National Religious Education Association in Chicago in February 1909. The Inter ...
1913: The American Medical Association created a propaganda department to outlaw health fraud and quackery. [6] In the same year, California outlawed cannabis. 1914: The first recorded instance of the United States enacting a ban on the domestic distribution of drugs is the Harrison Narcotic Act [7] of 1914.
Babies were delivered at home without the services of a physician well into the 20th century, making the midwife a central figure in healthcare. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The professionalization of medicine, starting slowly in the early 19th century, included systematic efforts to minimize the role of untrained uncertified women and keep them out of new ...