The epidemic threatens not only public health but economic output and national security. Introduction The United States...
Drugs
The Taliban have at least five significant potential sources of revenue as they begin to govern Afghanistan...
This fuels rampant violence in Mexico, contributing to the country’s tens of thousands of homicides every year....
For over a century, the Mexican authorities have sought to extract money from the drug trade by...
Reviewing the health and economic consequences of counterfeit drugs on the U.S. public and on the healthcare...
The history of poisons and poisoning goes back about 5,000 years to the earliest written records of...
Patients struggling with chronic health conditions are dependent on medications for sustaining health and improving their quality...
The image of an intoxicated ancient world goes against the idea that moderation was the key to...
Exploring the wandering life of the marsus and druggist and their ambiguous position within society. By Dr....
Our early ancestors had complex relationships with psychoactive plants. By Dan Reist, Nicole Bodner, and Rielle Capler...
The use of narcotics gradually emerged as a serious social problem in the 20th century. By Dr....
For certain people, addictive substances are the pillar of society – not only now, in the modern...
Prior to the 1868 Pharmacy Act, which restricted the sale of opium to pharmacists, opium was widely...
There was no moral condemnation of the use of opiates and their use was not regarded as...
Kratom, which has been linked to many deaths in the U.S., has been grown in Southeast Asia...
There have been talk of the beneficial properties of CBD oil for depression and neurosis for years....
Transporting plants and their by-products by long transoceanic voyages was a complex operation during the 18th century....
Examining the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners differentiated themselves from ‘quacks’. Abstract Trust is not automatically granted...
The marijuana industry in America has had a new lease of life in recent years. This is...
The relationship between cocaine and medical practitioners in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Introduction Cocaine is...
You likely understand that drinking and driving is bad, but resisting that urge can be difficult after...
Marijuana has been in the news for quite a while, which has made many people wonder why...
Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant’s formal name,...
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug. People have been...
Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade...
By Christopher Woolf In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since...
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...