How long has america been dealing with opioid addiction

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1. How long has America been dealing with opioid addiction? Three drugs are described as been representative of three eras of opioid use in America. Please explain how these eras are similar and different.

2. Dr. Herzberg points out that every decade for at least the last century has had the press "discovering" a new and horrifying addiction menace. What type of societal norm does this help to construct/reinforce? Do pharmaceutical manufactures profit from calling certain drugs (often old stand-bys) a menace?

3. Dr. Herzberg describes the government's response to addiction in America as 2 tiered. Please explain what these separate systems are and how the government justifies there existence. Who are the groups primarily addressed by each system?

4. Why has such a separate and unequal system been allowed to continue until present (most other overtly discriminatory systems have been abolished)? Do you see some drugs as good and others as bad?

5. Dr. Herzberg describes this as an artificial dichotomy, generated by this split system of governing drug use. Once again, a main thrust of this information is reorienting the system to protect all consumers, not punish some and offer treatment to others. How do you see this debate (legalize vs criminalize) being changed to better reflect the desires of and address the needs of all of us (e.g. harm reduction, safe ways and amounts to use vs unsafe, models of market regulation to protect consumers instead of maximize shareholder profits)?

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