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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editor's Note | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Alcohol in the British Colonies in America | |
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| The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States | |
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| A British Argument against Distilled Alcohol | |
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| A Friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy and Other Distilled Spirituous Liquors | |
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| British and U.S. Physicians on the Dangers of Alcohol | |
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| Petition to the House of Commons | |
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| Deleterious Effects of Distilled Spirits on the Human System | |
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| An Esteemed Physician Encourages First Temperance Movement | |
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| An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind | |
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| A Powerful Statement against All Alcohol by a Distinguished Preacher | |
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| Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils and Remedy of Intemperance | |
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| The Woman's Crusade of 1873-74 | |
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| Hillsboro Crusade Sketches | |
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| The Woman's Christian Temperance Union | |
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| Songs | |
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| Primer of Physiology and Hygiene | |
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| Frances E. Willard | |
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| Frances E. Willard: Statuary Hall, Washington, February 17th, 1903 | |
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| Scientific Temperance Instruction in Public Schools: A Message of Fifteen Years Ago | |
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| The Anti-Saloon League | |
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| Proceedings of the 1913 National Convention | |
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| Congressional Debate over the Prohibition Amendment | |
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| House Joint Resolution No. 168 | |
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| Testimony by Representatives Hobson and Mann | |
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| A Classic Tract by the Highest-Paid Speaker of the Anti-Saloon League | |
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| Alcohol and the Human Race | |
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| Is Alcohol Dangerous to the Fetus? Part 1: Yes | |
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| The Influence of Alcoholism on the Offspring | |
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| Constitutional Prohibition | |
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| The Eighteenth Amendment | |
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| Enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment | |
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| The Volstead Act | |
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| A Leading Economist Argues for Prohibition | |
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| Prohibition at Its Worst | |
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| A Pamphlet from the Association against the Prohibition Amendment | |
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| A Criticism of National Prohibition | |
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| Pierre S. du Pont Urges Repeal | |
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| Radio Speech | |
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| FDR Stumps for Repeal | |
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| Campaign Address on Prohibition | |
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| Campaign Address on the Federal Budget | |
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| Prohibition Is Repealed | |
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| Roosevelt Proclaims Repeal; Urges Temperance in Nation | |
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| Recovery from Alcoholism | |
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| The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous | |
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| Is Alcohol Dangerous to the Fetus? Part 2: No | |
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| Alcohol Explored | |
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| Effect of Single Large Alcohol Intake on Fetus | |
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| Definitions of Alcoholism | |
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| The Disease Concept of Alcoholism | |
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| Is Alcohol Dangerous to the Fetus? Part 3: Yes | |
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| Health Caution on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | |
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| Warning Labels Are Mandated on Containers of Alcoholic Beverages | |
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| The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 | |
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| How to Speak about Alcohol and Drugs: Government Recommendations | |
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| Message and Guidelines: Office for Substance Abuse Prevention | |
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| Drugs | |
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| Introduction: Opiates, Cocaine, Cannabis, and Other Drugs | |
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| Opiates | |
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| The Pleasures of Laudanum | |
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| Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | |
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| Morphine Is Isolated | |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Serturner and the Discovery of Morphine | |
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| The Invention of the Hypodermic Syringe | |
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| A Critical Study of the Origins and Early Development of Hypodermic Medication | |
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| Narcotic Use in the Civil War | |
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| The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War | |
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| Upsurge in Opium Use | |
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| The Use and Abuse of Opium | |
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| The Benefits of Nonmedical Opium Use | |
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| A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology | |
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| The Importance of Prevention | |
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| Plea from a Young Laudanum Addict | |
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| Treatment of Chronic Diseases with Opiates | |
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| On the Abuse of Hypodermic Injections of Morphia | |
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| Opium and the Opium-Appetite | |
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| Morbid Craving for Morphia | |
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| Inebriety, or Narcomania | |
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| Morphinism | |
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| What Is the Morphine Disease? | |
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| Treating the Morphia Habit | |
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| The Principles and Practices of Medicine | |
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| The Towns Cure | |
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| The Obliteration of the Craving for Narcotics | |
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| The Burden of Morphine | |
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| Long Day's Journey into Night | |
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| A Federal Antinarcotic Law | |
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| The Harrison Act | |
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| The Doremus and Webb Decisions | |
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| United States v. Doremus | |
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| Webb et al. v. United States | |
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| The Demonization of Opium | |
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| Opium: The Demon Flower | |
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| Drug Addiction as Chronic Disease | |
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| The Narcotic Drug Problem | |
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| Richmond P. Hobson Takes on Drugs | |
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| Mankind's Greatest Affliction and Gravest Menace | |
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| No Mercy for Drug Violations | |
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| The Boggs Act | |
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| The Narcotic Control Act of 1956 | |
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| The AMA and the ABA on the Limits of Law Enforcement | |
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| Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? | |
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| A Presidential Commission Suggests a Medical Approach | |
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| Narcotics and Drug Abuse | |
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| Explosion of Drug Use | |
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| Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective | |
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| New Laws from the 1960s to the 1980s | |
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| The Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965 | |
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| The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 | |
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| The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 | |
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| The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 | |
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| Cocaine | |
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| Cocaine Is Isolated | |
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| A New Alkaloid in Coca | |
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| Praise for Coca Extract | |
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| Erythroxylon Coca | |
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| The Therapeutic Value of Cocaine | |
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| Coca: Its Preparations and Therapeutical Qualities | |
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| Freud as Cocaine User and Advocate | |
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| Uber Coca | |
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| Recognizing Addiction | |
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| Cocaine Dosage and Cocaine Addiction | |
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| The Difficulties of Treating Cocaine Addicts | |
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| The Treatment of Chronic Cocaine Poisoning, or Cocaino-Mania | |
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| Investigating Drug Abuse | |
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| Report on Cocaine | |
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| Cocaine Defined as Social Menace | |
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| The Cocain Habit (1900) | |
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| The Cocain Habit (1901) | |
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| The Drug-Habit Menace in the South | |
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| The Shanghai Commission's Recommendations on Cocaine | |
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| Report on the International Opium Commission and on the Opium Problem as Seen within the United States | |
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| Cocaine Use Diminishes in the 1930s | |
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| Report of the Mayor's Committee on Drug Addiction | |
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| Cocaine Returns in the 1970s | |
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| White Paper on Drug Abuse | |
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| The Social Drug | |
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| The Cocaine Scene | |
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| The Danger of Cocaine | |
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| Coke Kills | |
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| Trying to Say "No" | |
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| Reagan: Drugs Are the "No. 1" Problem | |
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| The Crack Epidemic | |
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| Testimony before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control | |
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| "Coca Paste" and "Free Base" | |
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| Cannabis | |
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| Hashish | |
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| The Hasheesh Eater | |
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| Physiological Effects and Dangers of Cannabis Use | |
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| An Essay on Hasheesh | |
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| Hemp Growing for Farmers | |
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| Definition of Cannabis | |
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| Drug Plants under Cultivation | |
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| Vipers in the Jazz Age and After | |
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| Really the Blues | |
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| Tea for a Viper | |
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| The Government Response | |
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| Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, 1931 | |
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| Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, 1933 | |
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| Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, 1937 | |
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| Marijuana Comes under Federal Control | |
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| The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 | |
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| The Danger of Marijuana | |
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| Marijuana: Assassin of Youth | |
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| Clinical Observations of Marijuana Users | |
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| Marihuana: A Psychiatric Study | |
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| The La Guardia Report | |
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| The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York | |
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| The Journal of the American Medical Association Attacks the La Guardia Report | |
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| Recommending a "Discouragement Policy" | |
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| Marijuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding | |
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| Long-Term Effects Uncertain | |
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| Report on the Health-Related Effects of Marijuana | |
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| The Legalization of Marijuana: Hearings | |
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| Opinion and Recommended Ruling on the Marijuana Rescheduling Petition | |
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| Denial of Marijuana Scheduling Petition | |
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| Medical Legalization of Marijuana | |
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| Statement by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
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| Therapeutic Benefits and Health Risks of Marijuana | |
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| Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base | |
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| Scientific Research on Marijuana | |
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| White House Drug Policy Office Issues Statement on Institute of Medicine's Report on Marijuana and Medicine | |
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| Sources and Permissions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editor | |