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America`s first amphetamine epidemic 1929-1971 - A quantitative and qualitative retrospective with implications for the present

dc.contributor.author Rasmussen, Nicolas en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T14:49:48Z
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dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the absolute prevalence of both nonmedical stimulant use and stimulant dependence or abuse have reached neat the same levels today as at the epidemic`s peak around 1969. Further parallels between epidemics past and present including evidence that consumption of prescribed amphetamines has also reached the same absolute levels today as at the original epidemic`s peak, suggest that stricter limits on pharmaceutical stimulants must be considered in any efforts to reduce amphetamine abuse today. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0090-0036 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/43843
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title America`s first amphetamine epidemic 1929-1971 - A quantitative and qualitative retrospective with implications for the present en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 6 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal American Journal of Public Health en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 974-985 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 98 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Rasmussen, Nicolas, History & Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Humanities & Languages *
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