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...their discovery, whether accidental or man-made, and their evolution and use in society. He cleverly toys with our present-day notion of the term "drug," examining a range of products that includes the illegal substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opium, as well as certain legalized substances like caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and even sugar. Referring to what he calls the "psychoactive revolution," Courtwright examines how and why certain drugs came to be so readily available and popular, while others seemed to fizzle at their unnoticed beginnings. Forces of Habit is a solid, well-written and comprehensive span of the history...
...standard classification of the main drugs under discussion soon emerges in the book, and Courtwright focuses his first chapters on what he calls the "Big Three" and the "Little Three." Contrary to intuition, the "Big Three" includes the legal and mass-produced and consumed alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. The "Little Three" conforms to the typical notion of drugs as illegal substances, produced on a much smaller scale. These include opium, cannabis and coca. Courtwright's market-centered classification of these drugs foreshadows the economic emphasis in his historical accounts of each drug. But what about the drugs that didn...
...Parliament, that legalizes the production, sale and use of marijuana, making Switzerland's policy toward the drug one of the most liberal in Europe. Sale of hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine will remain illegal. "No research shows that marijuana is more harmful or addictive than alcohol and tobacco," says Georg Amstutz, spokesman for the Federal Office of Public Health. Full Story
...National Association of School Nurses recommends a student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1; most of NASN's members, however, serve 1,000 to 2,500 students. To help alleviate the shortage, a growing number of states--including California, Virginia and Florida--are considering investing money from tobacco-lawsuit settlements in hiring nurses. The hope is that with more nurses, school districts will be able to see successes like those at a 3,000-pupil district in McComb, Miss...
...unofficial chores is in McComb, it is far tougher in districts where one nurse is responsible for up to several thousand students, sometimes spread throughout as many as 10 buildings. That kind of work load is typical in Illinois, where the state school-nursing association lobbied unsuccessfully for tobacco-settlement money to go toward hiring nurses. In such cases schools rely on lunchroom supervisors and secretarial staff for basic first aid and call 911 for anything more complicated, says Phyllis Pelt, director of the school-nurse certification program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Something as simple...