HISTORY OF DRUG USE: INTRODUCTION

This website is featuring this special series of posts that form an outline showing the various levels of drug abuse since the beginning of recorded history.

Please note that these posts were "backwards dated" in order to offer the categories in the same order in which they were originally presented in print. So just follow the prompts to each succeeding subject listed at the bottom of each post, and ignore the dates.

As you will see by clicking on the archived post links to the left, overlapping time frames have been kept to a minimum, in order to categorize the occurrences of people becoming dependent upon different types of substances as each one was made available to the public at large.

These poisons to the human system were for centuries relegated to the secret cabinets of tribal priests, and in the civilized world to radical men of science, but much to society's regret, that status did not become permanent.

The entire text of this online project is being used free by schools as supplementary workbook material. I offer my sincere thanks to all those who have supported it.

- E.J. Gauthier, Editor.



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