https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah en-us 2018-01-29 13:54:47 UTC 2023-02-27 13:19:17 UTC hello@padlet.com lleeper1 https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225614872 1890s: You could by drugs and the syringes out of the Sears catalog. 1890:The first congressional act to levy a tax on morphine and opium.
1909: You cannot posses, import, or use opium for non-medical uses. This was the first federal law to ban the non-medical use of a substance.
1914: Harrison Act- it regulated the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and cocaine.
1919: The 18th amendment was ratified which banned the the manufacture, transportation, or sale of alcohol. The Volstead act offered guidelines on how to federally enforce Prohibition.
1933: The 21st amendment was ratified, overturning the 18th.
1937: The Marihuana Tax Act was passed. The law didn't criminalize the possession but it created hefty penalties for people who didn't pay their taxes.
1970: The Controlled Substance Act. The regulation of certain drugs and substances. This outlined 5 schedules used to classify drugs. Schedule 1: Heroin.
1971: Nixon declared a "War on Drugs" stating that drug abuse was "public enemy number one"
1973: The DEA was created by Nixon.]]> 2018-01-29 13:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225614872 lleeper1 https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616101 Carter: He ran a campaign to decriminalize marijuana. In his first year in office, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to decriminalize up to one ounce of marijuana.
Reagan: He expanded Nixon's War on Drugs policies. His wife had the campaign to educate children about drug use. He had a lot increases in incarcerations for nonviolent drug crimes. In 1986 Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse act.]]> 2018-01-29 13:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616101 lleeper1 https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616275 - The number of overdose deaths reached 64,000 people in 2016, but county data is not yet available.
- The number of these deaths reached 52,404 people in 2015 or the equivalent about 145 Americans every day.
- Nationally, opioids were involved in more than 61 percent of deaths from overdoses in 2014
-  In fact, death rates from overdoses in rural areas now outpaces the rate in large metropolitan areas, which historically had higher rates.]]> 2018-01-29 13:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616275 lleeper1 https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616673 NH: In 2014, 326 people died from an overdose of an opioid. Most deaths were from fentanyl. The state is the second to last, ahead of Texas, in access to treatment programs.
WV: There has been decades of overdose deaths. This is because of prescription drug addictions among its workers. They have prescription drugs because they do blue collar work. It has the highest overdose death rate in the nation.
NM: It had had high deaths from overdoses on heroin since the early 1990s. The use has shifted to younger people and more affluent communities. It has family trend. ]]> 2018-01-29 13:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lleeper1/3kwootox11ah/wish/225616673