Social Bore to Crack Whore:
The Evolution of the Drug Addict
By brownish-yellow Robinson
Discuss changes in patterns of Opiate Use and Addiction and in social perceptions of opiates in the united put forwards and england in the 19th and 20th Centuries
There has been major shifts in the attitude towards opiates and users over the 19th and 20th Century, from its initial state as a medical issue to the current lieu as a matter for the legal system. While the essential nature of opiates and their physical effect on the body in the 1800s is the same as today, the political and social climate has undergone gigantic changes. It is through social perceptions that the concept of addiction is constructed and maneuvered; these perceptions are indiscriminate to the cellular inclusion of racial, economic and political prejudice and is crucial to the understanding of modern attitudes towards opiates. The historical evolution of drug prohibition is the primary forethought of this paper, examining the political situation of America and Britain in the 1900s, the ramifications of the USAs criminalisation of drugs and Britains contiguous medicalisation strategies, and the events leading up to the international prominence of a war on drugs today.
Drug addiction in the 19th Century was prevalent in both British and American society where opiate usage was liberal and widespread by todays standards, aroundly unrestricted and unimpeded by social condemnation. Opium was a household product in Britain, utilize to treat epidemics like cholera, malaria, fever and diarrhea that tormented the rural in the 1800s (Booth, 1996). The opium consumption rate rose 2.4% for every category between 1831 and 1859 (ibid), documenting the increasing dependence on it not completely to remedy legitimate disease, but ease depression, control children and their appetites, as an intoxicant, and later for its poisonous properties. The latter...
Just wanted to commend you on an brilliant canvass.
It is true that the USA has turned drug addicts in to the most loathsome creatures that walk the planet, and it is this attitude which is prolonging this ridiculous drug war. Without support, there is unemployment, without conjecture means without money, which leads to crime, which leads to a blackmarket which leads to a punitive attitude toward addicts which leads to insularity of support.... etc
You highlighted these issues very well and provided a very thorough note of the statutes, laws and attitude shifts in the last 2 centuries. Well done, id pass off you an A
I really liked the abundance of hardcore historical facts and the cited sources.
I was a little disappointed that the article did not pull through up to sensationalism of the title. While the title is enticing and concise, the essay was at times a little verbose and I had to reread it in parts.
I suggest the closing divide is really two paragraphs and should be separated so the nett paragraph ties in better with the opening one.
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