Addiction 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/11/2023
Ozempic is the Latest Vain Pursuit of a Scientific Solution to Addiction
by Simon Torracinta
Now that the diabetes drug has been used off-label to suppress appetite, scientists are speculating about its use to suppress neurological aspects of addictive behavior. History suggests this is misguided.
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SOURCE: Aeon
9/6/2022
Ken Burns Got "Prohibition" Wrong
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Burns largely accepts an individualistic and libertarian narrative of prohibition as a misbegotten campaign of moral scolds, missing the reformist, egalitarian, and humane demands of the movement and the exploitative nature of the "liquor traffic" it sought to disrupt.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/6/2022
Ending the Illusion that Smoking is a Choice
by Sarah Milov
Tobacco companies still promote the convenient fiction that users addicted to the nicotine in their products are making a free choice to consume them.
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SOURCE: Salon
2/21/2022
How Ben Franklin Leveraged the French Addiction to Snuff to Get Aid for Independence
by Willard Sterne Randall
Without any tobacco-producing colonies, the French crown was eager to gain access to tobacco from Virginia, a fact deftly exploited by Franklin.
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SOURCE: Grand Forks Herald
12/4/2021
New Book Questions Value of Established Treatment Methods in Age of Fentanyl
Amy C. Sullivan tells the history of the "Minnesota Model" of inpatient treatment followed by sponsorship and 12-step recovery, but says the model isn't working for the opioid epidemic and a pragmatic "harm reduction" approach is needed.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
10/14/2021
Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine
by Dillon Carroll
Today's concern for "deaths of despair" among white Americans isn't unprecedented; a wave of alcoholism and temperance advocacy after the Civil War highlighted the relationship between social unsettlement, substance abuse and social reformism.
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SOURCE: Newsday
7/7/2021
Prof. David Courtwright Recounts History of Opioid Epidemics in Trial against Makers, Distributors
A historian of past drug epidemics and narcotics regulation is an expert witness for New York State in a case against opioid manufacturers, who relaxed the regulatory standards put up in response to opioid addiction in the 19th century.
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9/29/19
What Abraham Lincoln Got Right About Addiction
by Ed Simon
This National Recovery Month, Ed Simon examines the history of addiction recovery movements.
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1/27/19
The Surprising Role of the Army in Getting Americans Addicted to Cigarettes
by Joel R. Bius
What a historian who is in the Air Force discovered when he dug into the archives.
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