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The rate of opiate addiction increased from about .72 addicts per 1,000 people to a high of 4.59 per 1,000 in the 1890s. [ 2 ] Efforts to regulate the sale of pharmaceuticals began around 1860, and laws were introduced on a state-to-state basis that created penalties for mislabeling drugs, adulterating them with undisclosed narcotics, and ...
David Franklin Musto (January 8, 1936 – October 8, 2010) was an American expert on U.S. drug policy and the War on Drugs who served as a government adviser on the subject during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. He wrote extensively on the history of licit and illicit drugs and the process by which many of them were placed under governmental ...
Died. April 20, 1986. (1986-04-20) (aged 67) Occupation (s) Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Known for. Methadone treatment of heroin addicts. Marie Nyswander (March 13, 1919 – April 20, 1986) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst [1] known for developing and popularizing the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction.
The Addiction Research Center was the epicenter of research conducted on methadone, a long-acting full opioid agonist, and a schedule II controlled medication which is used commonly today to treat ...
Vincent Dole (18 May 1913, in Chicago – 1 August 2006) was an American doctor, who, along with his wife, Marie Nyswander (died 1986), developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction. [1] Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), improved treatment options in addiction medicine which for a century had ...
Alfred R. Lindesmith. Advocacy of a medical approach to drug addiction. Alfred Ray Lindesmith (August 3, 1905 – February 14, 1991) was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction. He was a critic of legal prohibitions against addictive ...
He then moved to New York, and between 1901 and 1904 he had a partnership in a brokerage firm that failed. It was at this time he was approached by a mysterious unnamed individual who claimed that he had a cure for drug addictions such as heroin, opium and alcoholism. The mysterious person suggested to Towns they could make a lot of money from ...
By "God's medicine," Hubbard means the psychedelic drug ibogaine. Specifically, he was interested in its potential ability to rid people of addiction to opioids and other habit-forming substances.