Drugs of Use and Abuse
A major therapeutic use for narcotic drugs is sedation.
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Cocaine is medically classified as a narcotic.
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Morphine was named after Morpheus, the Greek God of Sleep.
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Narcotic drugs cause diarrhea.
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The Vietnam War experience supported the conventional assumption that heroin addiction is so powerful that individuals are powerless to get off the drug.
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The soldiers who used heroin said that the main reason they did it was to overcome the fear or stress of combat.
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These patented medicines could be sold to anyone without a prescription.
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These patented medicines were required to list the contents on the label.
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When the Chinese government outlawed the sale of opium, they imposed tough penalties for using opium and forbade the importation of opium from India to help China gain favor with the British.
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14% of soldiers reported taking heroin at least once, and 1% tested positive on their departure from Vietnam.
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During the Vietnam War, heroin was more available to US soldiers than alcohol.
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Found naturally in opium, morphine is much more potent than opium.
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Heroin continues to be used as an analgesic in other countries.
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Heroin was banned for medical use in the US in 1970.
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Heroin was primarily used through smoking in Vietnam.
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Hong Kong was included in Britain's war concessions.
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Hypodermic kits for injecting morphine were available in the Sears Roebuck catalog in 1897.
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In 1970, heroin was placed as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substance Act.
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In the 1914 Harrison Narcotic Act, cocaine and marijuana were legally classified as narcotics.
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Many of these patent medicines contained marijuana, cocaine, and/or alcohol
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Many of these patent medicines contained morphine, codeine, and/or opium.
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Morphine addiction became such a big problem during the Civil War that it was nicknamed the "soldier's disease."
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Narcotic antagonists (like naloxone) block and reverse the effects of narcotic drugs (e.g. morphine and heroin).
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Narcotic drugs are also called opioids.
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Narcotic drugs are effective at sedating, suppressing a cough, relieving pain, and drying secretions in the nose and mouth.
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Narcotic drugs decrease respiration.
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One of heroin's first medical uses was as a cure for morphine addiction
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Only a small percent of the soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam continued to use heroin when they returned.
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Opium and opium derivatives are medically classified as narcotics.
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Patent medicines available in the late 1800s and early 1900s were used and sold for just about every ailment. Many were sold as "cure-alls."
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Synthetic drugs that have similar chemical properties to opiates are medically classified as narcotics.
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The Bayer Pharmaceutical Company (same one that came up with aspirin) was the first to commercially produce and market heroin for medical use.
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The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 stipulated, among other regulations, that the possession of a narcotic without a prescription was illegal.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 mandated that all drug products containing opium or other opiates list them on its label.
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The invention of the hypodermic needle largely contributed to the abuse and addiction of morphine in the 1850s.
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The soldiers who used heroin said that they did it because it was inexpensive, it was easily available, it was very pure, and there were few alternatives available.
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These patented medicines were available in grocery stores, in pharmacies, at traveling medicine shows, and from mail-order catalogs.
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