https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e Mattie Luther en-us 2018-01-30 17:57:16 UTC 2018-02-14 18:20:27 UTC hello@padlet.com mluther1 https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237419 -1890's Sears catalog offered cocaine for $1.50, which shows that there were no drug laws
-1890: first tax on morphine and opium was made 
-1909: Smoking Opium Exclusion Act banned the non-medical (smoking) use of opium 
-1914: Harrison Act said that government had control over all production and distribution of opiates production and distribution of opiates
-1919: 18th amendment banned the selling and production of alcohol, Volstead Act guidelines for enforcing Prohibition, 21st overturned 18th
-1937: Marijuana Tax Act, 1st on marijuana. Didnt criminalize possession, but made big penalties for not paying the tax 
-1970: Controlled Substances Act created 5 schedules (1 is worst) and regulated most drugs 
-1971: War on drugs is waged

]]> 2018-01-30 18:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237419 mluther1 https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237805 -Jimmy Carter started a political campaign to decriminalize marijuana (legalize marijuana) 
 -The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to decriminalize one ounce of marijuana
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-Ronald Reagan reinforced and expanded on Nixon's War on Drugs 
-Reagan's wife launched a campaign called "Just Say No"
-Refocus on drugs led to an increase in incarcerations for nonviolent drug crimes 
-Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1986: which set up mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain drug offenses ]]> 2018-01-30 18:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237805 mluther1 https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237910 -In 2016 64,000 people died from overdose
-In 2015 52,404 people died from overdose, that's about 145 Americans a day
-In 1999, six per 100,000 people died of overdose
-In 2015, 16 per 100,000 people died of overdose

Rural Areas = Black 
Large Metro Areas = Grey 
-Death rates from overdoses in rural areas now outpace the rate in large metropolitan areas 
-Nationally opiods were involved in more than 61 percent of deaths from overdoses in 2014 ]]> 2018-01-30 18:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226237910 mluther1 https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226238301 -Drug deaths have skyrocketed in New Hampshire. In 2014, 326 people died from overdose of an opioid 
-Opioids were involved in more than 61 percent of deaths from overdoses in 2014 
-Heroin and fentanyl overdoses have more than tripled since 2010, double the death rates of cocaine
-Most of the deaths from New Hampshire are caused by fentanyl 
-New Hampshire is second to last, ahead of Texas, in access to treatment programs for drug use  
-Appalachia has been stricken with the overdose deaths for more than a decade, mostly because of prescription drugs 
-The type of work people in Appalachia do is more accident prone, for pain relieve people will OD on prescription drugs 
-West Virginia has many blue collar workers which results in many injuries requiring medication 
-West Virginia has the highest death rate in the nation 
-Laws were passed to address the misuse of prescription painkillers, addicts began turning to heroin ]]> 2018-01-30 18:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mluther1/bdbtisi0tg7e/wish/226238301