Prescription Harrison Narcotic

Many laws have been enacted over the last century that affect drug distribution and administration. Those included here are the Pure Food and Drug Act Harrison Narcotic Act Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. These laws control the use of the three categories of drugs in the United States (prescription, nonprescription, and controlled substances). 

Tliis law, passed in 1914, regulated the sale of narcotic drugp. Before the passage of this act, any narcotic could be purchased without a prescription. This law was amended many times. In 1970, the Harrison Narcotic Act was replaced with the passage of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. 

As a result, the temperance movement in the United States, in the early twentieth century led to increased legislation to curb the use of opium and its derivatives. In 1905, the U.S. Congress banned the sale of opium, and the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1917 required patients to receive prescriptions for potentially harmful drugs. By 1923, most narcotic substances, including heroin and morphine, were banned from over-the-counter sale. 

The defendant, a physician, was convicted under the Harrison Narcotics Act of unlawfully selling morphine. The law allowed an exception for distribution of narcotic drugs to a patient by a registered physician in the course of his professional practice only. The government charged that Jin Fuey Moy had sold morphine to persons who were not his patients, and thus the prescriptions were not legitimate. The defendant appealed his conviction, and the appeal was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The federal Harrison Narcotics Act outlaws the sale of narcotics without a prescription. In addition to narcotics, the law also covers some stimulants such as cocaine. 

In the United States, the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 provided the first real regulation of the general sale of opiates. The exceptions were sales to licensed physicians for use on their own patients, and sales to those people who could provide a written prescription from a doctor. The adoption of laws controlling the production and distribution of all prescription medications occurred primarily because of morphine and codeine. 

Since addiction was not considered a legitimate disease meriting a prescription for narcotics (the medical community itself was split), an increasing number of people subsequently resorted to criminal activity to obtain their drugs the cost of heroin on the streets rose from 6.50/ounce to approximately 100. The increase in crime validated the Treasury Department s fear that deprived addicts would threaten the public order. Although passage of the Harrison Act did increase the price of street narcotics, it also resulted in a reduction of patent medicine narcotics as well as a decline in addiction rates. 

The Harrison Narcotic Act imposes upper limits on the amount of opium, opium-derived products, and cocaine allowed in products available to the public requires prescriptions for products exceeding the allowable limit of narcotics and mandates increased record keeping for physicians and pharmacists... 

The opportunity the Harrison Act offered to those seeking to stamp out the spread of addiction was contained in one small phrase. A doctor or a dentist was permitted to continue to prescribe cocaine and other narcotics, provided that it was done in the course of his professional practice only. In other words, cocaine could be prescribed as part of a recommended course of medical treatment but not merely to help someone who was addicted to the drug avoid the symptoms of withdrawal or continue with their drug use. Doctors found to be writing prescriptions without some medical backup for the prescription could be and were arrested. 

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