TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Interface of Pain Management and Chemical Dependency A1 - Wartenberg, Alan A. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - With the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act in 1914, the United States federal government put states, as well as physicians, nurses, and patients, on notice that treatment of those with “narcotic addiction” with drugs, specifically opiates and cocaine, was outside the purview of medical practice and was henceforth illegal.1 Those who championed the Harrison Act saw a distinction between those with addiction and those with pain and saw the law as necessary to halt what many in the United States saw as a headlong slide into producing generations of opioid, cocaine, and marijuana addicts. Several years later, a political coalition of many of the same advocates saw the Volstead Act ratified as a Constitutional amendment banning the use of alcohol for recreational purposes. That “Great Experiment” lasted barely 13 years; drug prohibition, however, has continued.2 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131936736 ER -