Focusing on a period that has received little attention thus far, Helena Barop's book helps fill
in the blanks on how US International Narcotics Control developed after World War II or how …

The “War on Drugs” has been the subject of many political and historical controversies.
Launched in 1971 under then President Richard Nixon, and coming to the fore in the late …

The process of rendering some substances illegal, and controlling others through
government regulation, was largely a phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth …

In addition, Boyle's themes miss a lot, which he admits:“I barely touch on the Latino, Asian
American, and Native American movements.... I give only passing attention to the campaign …

Overseas trade and European expansion in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
centuries turned psychoactive drugs, including spirituous alcohol and tobacco, into global …

A history of drugs is a study of cultures in competition, argues editor William O. Walker III.
Eminently adaptive, drug cultures have competed with proscriptive cultures to create a …

The creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) in 1930 marked the in-ception of an
integrated domestic and foreign narcotic control program in the United States.'An antiopium …

Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France and Benjamin Breen's The Age
of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade, trace the rise of the globalized drug …

Cairo's Qasr El Aini Hospital regularly received opiate addicts in poor health, but a startling
new development in April 1929 captured the attention of Dr. Alexander Gordon Biggam …

The views expressed in this essay are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of the
US government, the US Department of State, or the current administration.[...] As and …