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America`s first amphetamine epidemic 1929-1971 - A quantitative and qualitative retrospective with implications for the present
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 | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T14:49:48Z | |
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 |
dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |
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 | * |