Sanitariums Hospitals And The Belladonna Cure
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Sanitariums Hospitals And The Belladonna Cure
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Author : Kenneth Anderson
language : en
Publisher: The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-11-16
Sanitariums Hospitals And The Belladonna Cure written by Kenneth Anderson and has been published by The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-16 with Medical categories.
This book covers the history of for-profit institutions for the treatment of drug and alcohol habits which were established prior to the Repeal of Prohibition, as well as a number of miscellaneous entities such as mail-order opium cures. These include the famous Charles B. Towns Hospital and its notorious belladonna cure. Although many people know that Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson was treated with the belladonna cure at the Charles B. Towns Hospital, few are aware that Towns was an insurance salesman with an eighth grade education and no medical training who lied about inventing an addiction cure that he got from someone else, that Towns had also been a stockbroker who was convicted of grand larceny after embezzling money for his clients, and that Towns only decided to make a buck in the addiction cure business after being banned from stock trading. Furthermore, in the 1910s, Towns proposed that state government should force drug addicts to take his cure against their wills, and that death camps should be built to exterminate anyone who relapsed after taking his cure. This book also tells the story of Harry Hubbell Kane, who founded the De Quincey Home for the cure of drug addicts in 1881. After the De Quincey Home failed in 1883, Kane invented and marketed a notorious patent medicine named Scotch Oats Essence. Scotch Oats Essence was comprised of one third alcohol and each ounce contained about a half a grain of morphine. It seems that Kane had decided that if he couldn't make money by curing drug addicts, he could make a lot of money by creating them. These are only two of hundreds of addiction treatment facilities which existed prior to the founding of AA: some good, some bad, and some indifferent. These stories and many more can be found in this book.
Strychnine Gold Part 1
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Author : Kenneth Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Independently published
Release Date : 2021-07-25
Strychnine Gold Part 1 written by Kenneth Anderson and has been published by Independently published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-25 with Medical categories.
This book tells the story of the huge addiction treatment industry which flourished in the United States between 1890 and the advent of Prohibition in 1920. The story begins in Russia in 1886, where a number of doctors discovered a relatively effective pharmacological treatment for alcoholism. Although this Russian discovery was published in countless major English language medical journals, it was entirely ignored by the US addiction experts of the day, who eschewed pharmacological treatments, and instead preferred to lock people up in inebriate asylums where they could be subjected to religious coercion. However, an obscure railroad physician and patent medicine salesman named Leslie E. Keeley, who lived in the dusty prairie town of Dwight, Illinois, read about the Russian treatment in a medical journal and decided to give it a try. Much to his surprise, the Russian treatment proved highly effective, and, by 1891, Dr. Keeley was treating upwards of a thousand patents a day at the Keeley Institute in Dwight. Keeley was a salesman and a bit of a Barnum; he always claimed that he had invented the cure himself after decades of painstaking research and he called it the Gold Cure, claiming that his secret ingredient was gold. Of course, there was no gold in the gold cure other than the gold which lined Keeley's pockets. However, the treatment was relatively effective, and by 1893 there were over 100 Keeley Institutes operating in the United States and abroad, and hundreds of copycats were operating imitation gold cure institutes. The Keeley Gold Cure was even adopted by the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the US Army. The Keeley treatment took 28 days and required hypodermic injections four times a day for the entire period. On the other hand, the Gatlin Institutes which opened in 1902 and the Neal Institutes which opened in 1909 used a form of aversion treatment and advertised themselves as three-day liquor cures. Competition between the gold cures and the three-day liquor cures in the first two decades of the 20th century was fierce and intense. Then, as the United States entered World War One in 1917, the demand for addiction treatment suddenly dried up for a variety of reasons, and the majority of these proprietary cure institutes had shut down before the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, although the parent Keeley Institute in Dwight remained in operation until 1966. This book contains the never-before-told tale of how these proprietary treatment institutes grew into a huge industry, flourished, then finally faded away as the United States entered World War One. Part One of this book covers the Keeley Institutes, Dipsocura, the Bedal Institutes, the McKanna liquor cure, the Wherrell gold cure, and the Hagey Cure. Part Two of this book covers the Morrell Cure, the National Bichloride of Gold Institutes, the Oppenheimer Institutes, the Tyson Vegetable Cure, the Willow Bark Institutes, the Telfair Sanitarium, the Connelley Cure, the Murray Institutes, the Gatlin Institutes, the Neal Institutes, the S. B. Collins Cure, and the D'Unger Cure. Part Two also contains appendices discussing strychnine, belladonna alkaloids, "jag cure" laws, and more.
Substance And Shadow
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Author : Stephen R. Kandall
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996
Substance And Shadow written by Stephen R. Kandall and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drug abuse categories.
This work uncovers the history of women and addiction in America and how dependent women have been treated. The author is critical of doctors who have often been quick to prescribe narcotics to female patients.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Author : Bill W.
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Self-Help categories.
A 75th anniversary keepsake volume of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. Shrink-wrapped in a vegan-leather hardback casing and slipped into an O-card reminiscent of the book’s original 1939 jacket design, this volume is a lifetime keepsake. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Author : Bill W.
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Self-Help categories.
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Junkies And Straights
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Author : Robert H. Coombs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Junkies And Straights written by Robert H. Coombs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Self-Help categories.
Us Of Aa
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Author : Joe Miller
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Us Of Aa written by Joe Miller and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Social Science categories.
In US of AA, Miller shares the never-before-told story of how in the aftermath of prohibition America's top scientists helped launch a movement that would give rise to a multi-million-dollar treatment industry and a new government agency devoted to alcoholism that has made available millions of dollars for research. Despite the fact that this research showed that alcoholism is a complex disease requiring an array of treatment strategies, among which Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is one of the least effective, money continued to flow to treatment facilities using approaches similar to AA. Five years in the making, his brilliant, in-depth investigative reporting into the history, politics and science of alcoholism will show how AA became our nation's de facto treatment policy, even as evidence for more effective remedies accumulated. US of AA is a character-driven, beautifully written exposé, full of secrecy, irony, liquor industry money, the shrillest of scare tactics and, at its center, a grand deception. In the tradition of Crazy by Pete Earley, and David Goldhill's Catastrophic Care, US of AA shines a much-needed spotlight on the addiction treatment industry. It will forever change the way we think about the entire enterprise.
The Book That Started It All
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Author : Alcoholics Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-03
The Book That Started It All written by Alcoholics Anonymous and has been published by Hazelden Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-03 with Self-Help categories.
The Book That Started It All Hardcover
New York State Journal Of Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
New York State Journal Of Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Medicine categories.
Southern Medicine And Surgery
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
Southern Medicine And Surgery written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Medicine categories.