https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-01-29 18:07:42 UTC 2024-12-10 05:23:08 UTC hello@padlet.com mrose6 https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772137 -1890- Sears catalogue gave a small amount of cocaine and a syringe at $1.50. (at time is was not outlawed). 
First act to levy taxes on morphine and opium took place in 1890. 
- 1909: Smoking Opium Exclusion Act banned the possession, importation, and use of opium for smoking. However, opium could still be used as a medication. First real drug that the government tried to ban. 
-1914: Harrison Act regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and cocaine. Government has full control of the distribution of drugs. 
-1919 the 18th amendment was ratified...banned distribution,selling, and buying of alcohol. 
21st Amendment:  brought back alcohol. 
Volstead Act: guidelines on how to enforce Prohibition. 
1937: Marijuana Tax Act placed a tax on the selling of weed introduced by North Carolina. Did not criminalize possession and  included very strong penalties if the tax was not paid. 
1970: Controlled Substance Act-regulated most drugs and substance. Created 5 schedules for drugs. (1 is the worst) 
1971: Nixon declares the war on drugs. 
1973: Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Controlled smuggling and drug use in the US. 
 - 11 states decriminalized marijuana ]]> 2018-01-29 18:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772137 mrose6 https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772341 Carter: - First year in office the Senate voted to decriminalize up to an ounce of marijuana.
- Campaigned that he was going to end it. 

 -1984 his wife made the "Just Say No" campaign which educated children on the dangers of drug use.
-1986 Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act: mandatory minimum prison  sentences for certain drugs. 
- FSA (2010): reduced the discrepancy between crack & powder cocaine. ]]> 2018-01-29 18:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772341 mrose6 https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772526 2016: 64,000 overdose deaths. 
2014: overdoses increase to 145 Americans a day.
-in 6 years 16 out of 100,000 people jumped to 100,000 in 1999. 
- Death rate from overdoses in rural areas now outpace the rate in large metropolitan areas.
2014: opioids were involved in more than 61% of the deaths from overdoses.
 ]]> 2018-01-29 18:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772526 mrose6 https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772727 New Hampshire- in 2014 326 people died from an overdose on opioids from Fentanyl & heroin. 
- Dealers lace it or just add more. 
- New Hampshire is second to last, Texas coming in last, in access to treatment programs. 
- New Hampshire spends $8 per capita for drug abuse treatment. Connecticut spends twice amount.  
- New Mexico:  heroin addiction has passed down from generation to generation. 
-It is harder to treat younger people. 

Appalachia: 
-hit with overdose deaths for more than a decade. Overdose based on prescription drugs. The type of work they do is more injury prone which causes more prescriptions from doctors. 
- after laws were passed to address misuse of prescription people turned to heroin. 
- West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the nation. ]]> 2018-01-29 18:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/225772727 mrose6 https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/226725374 Death rate from overdoses in rural areas now outpace the rate in large metropolitan areas.]]> 2018-01-31 18:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mrose6/bcdvzlmpikfn/wish/226725374