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...Opium Wars and Treaties of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce ...

... A powerful anti-opium movement emerged, especially in Europe and Asia, during the late nineteenth century. Activists, many of them religiously motivated, criticized opium itself as well as the problems with opium sale and distribution to vulnerable populations. They often focused their efforts...

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... Developments in medical practice and knowledge shaped the use of opiates and cocaine as medicine in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Improved vaccines, sanitation, and surgical techniques made opium and cocaine less useful as medicine in the United States and Europe. In most...

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... The anti-opium movement gained traction in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Religiously motivated reformers joined forces with medical professionals and politicians, all of whom had their own reasons for wanting to restrict narcotics consumption. The United States played a leading...

... As concern about the negative effects of opium grew, officials and reformers proposed a variety of potential solutions including better control over sales, registration of users, restricting the amounts sold, and prohibition. This chapter explores the ways that anti-opium reformers settled...