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Protecting Some and Policing Others: Federal Pharmaceutical Regulation and the Foundations of the War on Drugs

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This dissertation demonstrates how related initiatives to reform narcotics laws and protect consumers from dangerous medicines – taking hold in the 1950s and institutionalized in the mid-1960s – created the foundation for a massive expansion of federal policing of illicit drugs. Centered on the history of the Food and Drug...

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FDA, pharmaceutical, BDAC, war on drugs, consumer protection, and drug abuse

Subject:

2018-01-01

Creator:

Matthew Ross June

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

04/09/2019

Date Modified:

04/09/2019

Resource Type:

Dissertation