Treating some addictions as crimes doesn't really seem to be helping things much. Despite all the decades of warnings and harsh punishments, some people still use potentially addictive drugs, and some of them do indeed become addicted to them. The vast majority of drug users however, do not become drug addicts. |
Should we revile them, pity them, jail them, or cure them? | |||
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Year | Headline | Publication | Issue Date |
1925 | Menace of the drug addict | NY Times | Feb |
1925 | Control of drug addiction mainly a police problem | American City | Nov |
1930 | Fluid from blisters to cure drug habit | Literary Digest | Feb 1 |
1930 | Economic losses through drug addiction | Overland | Sep |
1931 | Rabies treatment for drug addicts | Scientific American | Jan |
1931 | Seek drug to save dope fiends | Popular Science | May |
1932 | Treatment for drug addiction | Science | May 13 |
1933 | Drug addicts will receive federal help | Newsweek | Aug 5 |
1936 | Morphinism cure | Time | Jan 13 |
1938 | Brain wave studies helping against drug addiction | Science | Nov 26 |
1939 | Drug addiction as a public health problem | Scientific Monthly | May |
1940 | Problem of drug addiction | Science Digest | Oct |
1940 | New hope for conquest of drug addiction | Science News Letter | Dec 21 |
1942 | Shortage of narcotics decreases addiction | Science News Letter | Aug 8 |
1942 | Decreased drug addiction may have complex cause | Science News Letter | Aug 15 |
1945 | One up on narcotics; addiction can be cured | Colliers | Dec 15 |
1946 | Thirty million new addicts | Time | Jan 19 |
1948 | Dopers' decline | Newsweek | Dec 20 |
1951 | High and light; narcotic addiction among teen-agers | Time | Feb 26 |
1951 | Narcotic addiction among teen-agers | Survey | Jul |
1951 | Child dope addicts | Science News Letter | Jul 14 |
1951 | Save them in advance; teen-age drug addiction | Colliers | Aug 5 |
1951 | Facts about our teen-age drug addicts | Reader's Digest | Oct |
1952 | Prevention and control of addiction to narcotics | Am Jour of Public Health | Oct |
1953 | Drug addiction among adolescents | Saturday Review | Sep 19 |
1955 | Help for the living dead | Sat Eve Post | Oct 22 |
1957 | Legalized addiction | Newsweek | Jan 7 |
1957 | Dope addict, criminal or patient? | Look | Oct 15 |
1957 | Addiction exaggerated | Science News Letter | Dec 14 |
1958 | Our teen-age drug addicts | Ladies Home Journal | Mar |
1959 | Infant acquires addiction | Science News Letter | Aug 22, 1959 |
1961 | Object: kill the habit | Newsweek | Jan 23 |
1962 | New addicts; teen-agers hooked on goofballs, glue and cough medicine | Newsweek | Aug 13 |
1962 | Purely medical approach to addiction proposed | Science News Letter | Oct 27 |
1963 | Drug addicts need medicine not punishment | Science News Letter | Jul 6 |
1964 | Speaking out; give drugs to addicts | Sat Eve Post | Aug 8 |
1966 | Treating addicts humanely | Christian Century | Feb 2 |
1966 | Ours is an addicted society | NY Times Magazine | Dec 11 |
1967 | Addicted! addiction to diet pills | Good Housekeeping | May |
1971 | Housewives and the drug habit | Ladies Home Journal | Dec |
1972 | Quarantining addicts | Time | May 22 |
1972 | Drug abuse: nemesis of psychiatry | American Scholar | Summer |
1973 | Will your child be hooked on drugs? | Better Homes & Gardens | Jun |
1974 | Drug-addicted society | Nation | Jun 8 |
1974 | Old addicts never die | Science Digest | Jul |
1974 | Slavish reliance on drugs: are we pushers for our own children? | Psychology Today | Dec |
1976 | Employed addict does better job than you think | Psychology Today | Aug |
1978 | Morality versus junk; compulsory treatment for heroin addicts | Maclean's | Jun 12 |
1978 | Is U.S. becoming a drug-ridden society? | US News | Aug 7 |
1979 | Addicts are responsible for much of all criminal activity | Ebony | Aug |
1981 | Help for marijuana addicts | Newsweek | May 11 |
1982 | Drug-abuse: self-made misery | Current Health | Apr |
1982 | You may be guilty of drug abuse | 50 Plus | Dec |
1983 | How drugs sap the nations strength | US News | May 16 |
1983 | Addiction: is it a disease? | Science Digest | Aug |
1984 | Medicinal drugs that can make you an addict | Prevention | Feb |
1985 | Feeding America's habit | Newsweek | Feb 25 |
1985 | Are you sure your child isn't on drugs? | Good Housekeeping | May |
1985 | The executive addict | Fortune | Jun 24 |
1985 | Does drug use mean addiction? | Harper's Bazaar | Jul |
1985 | What is our drug problem? | Harpers | Dec |
1987 | "We're teaching our kids to use drugs" | Reader's Digest | Nov |
1989 | Plain talk about drugs: users are bums | Reader's Digest | Jun |
1989 | Do humans need to get high? | Time | Aug 21 |
1989 | Will fear make Americans kick the drug habit? | Business Week | Sep 11 |
1990 | Dr. James Halikas finds that a pill made for seizures may help cocaine addicts to just say no [carbamazapine] | People | Jan 20 |
1990 | A dirty drug secret: hyping instant addiction doesn't help | Newsweek | Feb 19 |
1990 | I gave birth to an addicted baby | Good Housekeeping | Apr |
1990 | Should drug abusers be treated or convicted? | Jet | May 28 |
1990 | The cure: researchers say a nonaddictive painkiller stops cravings for cocaine and heroin [buprenorphine] | Omni | Dec |
1991 | Narcs on dope [undercover agents who abuse drugs] | Mother Jones | Nov/Dec |
1992 | Artificial cocaine helps kick habit | USA Today (Periodical) | Feb |
1992 | Pastor, father, addict | Reader's Digest | Jun |
1993 | TV ads may lead to excessive drug use | USA Today (Periodical) | Apr |
1993 | What to do with our addiction problem | Omni | Sep |
1995 | Treat junkies, save money | Business Week | Aug 14 |
2001 | The war on addiction | Newsweek | Feb 12 |
2001 | Young, successful and addicted to drugs: the new prescription-pill poppers | Glamour | Jun |
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