Drug Abuse

The Sumerians use opium, suggested by the fact that they have an ideogram for it which has been translated as HUL, meaning “joy” or “rejoicing"

Earlist historical record of the production of alcohol: the description of a brewery in an an Egyptian papyrus.

Earlist historical evidence of the eating of poppy seeds among the Lake Dwellers on Switzerland.The long search for euphoria

Opium is widely used in China and the Far East.

Bishop of Constantinople: “I hear man cry, ‘Would there be no wine! O folly! O madness!’ Is it wine that causes this abuse? No, for if you say, ‘Would there were no light!’ because of the informers, and would there were no women because of adultery

Abraham Lincoln: “In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims, have been spared more from the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. Indeed, I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.”

Cocaine is isolated in its pure form

The Personal Liberty League of the United States is founded to oppose the increasing momentum of movements for compulsory abstinence from alcohol.

Dr. William Stewart Halsted, is a morphine addict. He continues to use morphine in large doses throughout his phenomenally successful surgical career lasting until his death in 1922.

Cigarettes are illegal in fourteen states, and ninety-two anti-cigarette bills are pending in twenty-eight states. Young women are expelled from college for smoking cigarettes.