| Should we revile them, pity them, jail them, or cure them? |
| Year |
Headline |
Publication |
Issue Date |
| 1925 |
Menace of the drug addict |
NY Times |
Feb |
| 1925 |
Control of drug addiction mainly a police problem |
American City |
Nov |
| 1930 |
Fluid from blisters to cure drug habit |
Literary Digest |
Feb 1 |
| 1930 |
Economic losses through drug addiction |
Overland |
Sep |
| 1931 |
Rabies treatment for drug addicts |
Scientific American |
Jan |
| 1931 |
Seek drug to save dope fiends |
Popular Science |
May |
| 1932 |
Treatment for drug addiction |
Science |
May 13 |
| 1933 |
Drug addicts will receive federal help |
Newsweek |
Aug 5 |
| 1936 |
Morphinism cure |
Time |
Jan 13 |
| 1938 |
Brain wave studies helping against drug addiction |
Science |
Nov 26 |
| 1939 |
Drug addiction as a public health problem |
Scientific Monthly |
May |
| 1940 |
Problem of drug addiction |
Science Digest |
Oct |
| 1940 |
New hope for conquest of drug addiction |
Science News Letter |
Dec 21 |
| 1942 |
Shortage of narcotics decreases addiction |
Science News Letter |
Aug 8 |
| 1942 |
Decreased drug addiction may have complex cause |
Science News Letter |
Aug 15 |
| 1945 |
One up on narcotics; addiction can be cured |
Colliers |
Dec 15 |
| 1946 |
Thirty million new addicts |
Time |
Jan 19 |
| 1948 |
Dopers' decline |
Newsweek |
Dec 20 |
| 1951 |
High and light; narcotic addiction among teen-agers |
Time |
Feb 26 |
| 1951 |
Narcotic addiction among teen-agers |
Survey |
Jul |
| 1951 |
Child dope addicts |
Science News Letter |
Jul 14 |
| 1951 |
Save them in advance; teen-age drug addiction |
Colliers |
Aug 5 |
| 1951 |
Facts about our teen-age drug addicts |
Reader's Digest |
Oct |
| 1952 |
Prevention and control of addiction to narcotics |
Am Jour of Public Health |
Oct |
| 1953 |
Drug addiction among adolescents |
Saturday Review |
Sep 19 |
| 1955 |
Help for the living dead |
Sat Eve Post |
Oct 22 |
| 1957 |
Legalized addiction |
Newsweek |
Jan 7 |
| 1957 |
Dope addict, criminal or patient? |
Look |
Oct 15 |
| 1957 |
Addiction exaggerated |
Science News Letter |
Dec 14 |
| 1958 |
Our teen-age drug addicts |
Ladies Home Journal |
Mar |
| 1959 |
Infant acquires addiction |
Science News Letter |
Aug 22, 1959 |
| 1961 |
Object: kill the habit |
Newsweek |
Jan 23 |
| 1962 |
New addicts; teen-agers hooked on goofballs, glue and cough medicine |
Newsweek |
Aug 13 |
| 1962 |
Purely medical approach to addiction proposed |
Science News Letter |
Oct 27 |
| 1963 |
Drug addicts need medicine not punishment |
Science News Letter |
Jul 6 |
| 1964 |
Speaking out; give drugs to addicts |
Sat Eve Post |
Aug 8 |
| 1966 |
Treating addicts humanely |
Christian Century |
Feb 2 |
| 1966 |
Ours is an addicted society |
NY Times Magazine |
Dec 11 |
| 1967 |
Addicted! addiction to diet pills |
Good Housekeeping |
May |
| 1971 |
Housewives and the drug habit |
Ladies Home Journal |
Dec |
| 1972 |
Quarantining addicts |
Time |
May 22 |
| 1972 |
Drug abuse: nemesis of psychiatry |
American Scholar |
Summer |
| 1973 |
Will your child be hooked on drugs? |
Better Homes & Gardens |
Jun |
| 1974 |
Drug-addicted society |
Nation |
Jun 8 |
| 1974 |
Old addicts never die |
Science Digest |
Jul |
| 1974 |
Slavish reliance on drugs: are we pushers for our own children? |
Psychology Today |
Dec |
| 1976 |
Employed addict does better job than you think |
Psychology Today |
Aug |
| 1978 |
Morality versus junk; compulsory treatment for heroin addicts |
Maclean's |
Jun 12 |
| 1978 |
Is U.S. becoming a drug-ridden society? |
US News |
Aug 7 |
| 1979 |
Addicts are responsible for much of all criminal activity |
Ebony |
Aug |
| 1981 |
Help for marijuana addicts |
Newsweek |
May 11 |
| 1982 |
Drug-abuse: self-made misery |
Current Health |
Apr |
| 1982 |
You may be guilty of drug abuse |
50 Plus |
Dec |
| 1983 |
How drugs sap the nations strength |
US News |
May 16 |
| 1983 |
Addiction: is it a disease? |
Science Digest |
Aug |
| 1984 |
Medicinal drugs that can make you an addict |
Prevention |
Feb |
| 1985 |
Feeding America's habit |
Newsweek |
Feb 25 |
| 1985 |
Are you sure your child isn't on drugs? |
Good Housekeeping |
May |
| 1985 |
The executive addict |
Fortune |
Jun 24 |
| 1985 |
Does drug use mean addiction? |
Harper's Bazaar |
Jul |
| 1985 |
What is our drug problem? |
Harpers |
Dec |
| 1987 |
"We're teaching our kids to use drugs" |
Reader's Digest |
Nov |
| 1989 |
Plain talk about drugs: users are bums |
Reader's Digest |
Jun |
| 1989 |
Do humans need to get high? |
Time |
Aug 21 |
| 1989 |
Will fear make Americans kick the drug habit? |
Business Week |
Sep 11 |
| 1990 |
Dr. James Halikas finds that a pill made for seizures may help cocaine addicts to just say no [carbamazapine] |
People |
Jan 20 |
| 1990 |
A dirty drug secret: hyping instant addiction doesn't help |
Newsweek |
Feb 19 |
| 1990 |
I gave birth to an addicted baby |
Good Housekeeping |
Apr |
| 1990 |
Should drug abusers be treated or convicted? |
Jet |
May 28 |
| 1990 |
The cure: researchers say a nonaddictive painkiller stops cravings for cocaine and heroin [buprenorphine] |
Omni |
Dec |
| 1991 |
Narcs on dope [undercover agents who abuse drugs] |
Mother Jones |
Nov/Dec |
| 1992 |
Artificial cocaine helps kick habit |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Feb |
| 1992 |
Pastor, father, addict |
Reader's Digest |
Jun |
| 1993 |
TV ads may lead to excessive drug use |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Apr |
| 1993 |
What to do with our addiction problem |
Omni |
Sep |
| 1995 |
Treat junkies, save money |
Business Week |
Aug 14 |
| 2001 |
The war on addiction |
Newsweek |
Feb 12 |
| 2001 |
Young, successful and addicted to drugs: the new prescription-pill poppers |
Glamour |
Jun |