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Historical Perspectives
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Power Point for Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective Katherine van Wormer Diane Rae Davis Cengage Publishing Company 2012 copyright
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Early History
Alcohol back to 5000 BC Iran
Unknown to world’s indigenous people
Koran --- condemned wine. Alcohol from Arabic al-kuhul.
Arabian dr. discovered evaporated distilled spirits. Technology exceeded its grasp
1575 --- distilling used–gin. Booze from Dutch busen.
Great devastation from England, 1700-1750.
Infant mortality, crime
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North America
More beer than water on Mayflower.
Slaves forbidden to drink except on special occasions, taught bingeing.
Puritan traditions.
18th – Quakers and Methodists disapproved of hard liquor.
Male drinking cult 1725-1825 notorious.
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Temperance movement
1825-1919: Against hard liquor.
Temperance woman for women’s suffrage and ban on distilled beverages.
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Early 1900s
Cocaine in Coke
Tobacco outlawed for brief period.
1914 Harrison Act --- restricted opioids (associated with Chinese people) cocaine must now be prescribed.
Marijuana (associated with Mexicans) State laws in southwest criminalized.
Teetotaler T =total abstinence, from Ireland.
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U.S. Prohibition 1920-1933
Glamorized crime. Mafia/ Hollywood/Wash. DC link. Homicide rates increased.
Great Depression created need for jobs.
Giancana, Double Cross
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Modern War on Drugs Johnson—war on poverty Nixon tthrough the Bushes—war on drugs 1960s heroin horror stories 1980s, crack cocaine 2000s, meth Attacks directed toward poor, minorities.
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History of Gambling in U.S. Lotteries American Revolution Banned after Civil War and during Prohibition. 1931—casino gambling legal in Nevada 1960s—lotteries for state revenue 1972—first gambling treatment center at VA, New York 1987—Supreme Court banned state regulation of tribal casinos Mississippi River casinos Internet gambling popular today
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Treatment History continued
1956 AMA declared alcoholism an illness, 1966, a disease.
Harold Hughes –founded NIAAA.
Hazelden adapted 12 Step approach.
Box 2:1—“Treatment in Norway”—universal health care for support.
Peele and Fingarette: addiction as bad habits not disease.
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History of Harm Reduction
AIDS in Netherlands spawned new approach, to reduce the harm.
Britain, 1960s and later.
Heroin prescribed. Needle exchanges-U.S.
Alan Marlatt, died in 2011, pioneer in spread of harm reduction approach to U.S., researcher at U. of Washington.
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