RT Book, Section
A1 Wartenberg, Alan A.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131936736
T1 The Interface of Pain Management and Chemical Dependency
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131936736
RD 2024/04/25
AB With  the  passage  of  the  Harrison  Narcotics  Tax  Act  in  1914,  the  United  States  federal  government  put  states,  as  well  as  physicians,  nurses,  and  patients,  on  notice  that  treatment  of  those  with  “narcotic  addiction”  with  drugs,  specifically  opiates  and  cocaine,  was  outside  the  purview  of  medical  practice  and  was  henceforth  illegal.1  Those  who  championed  the  Harrison  Act  saw  a  distinction  between  those  with  addiction  and  those  with  pain  and  saw  the  law  as  necessary  to  halt  what  many  in  the  United  States  saw  as  a  headlong  slide  into  producing  generations  of  opioid,  cocaine,  and  marijuana  addicts.  Several  years  later,  a  political  coalition  of  many  of  the  same  advocates  saw  the  Volstead  Act  ratified  as  a  Constitutional  amendment  banning  the  use  of  alcohol  for  recreational  purposes.  That  “Great  Experiment”  lasted  barely  13  years;  drug  prohibition,  however,  has  continued.2