Date of Award
5-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Social and Cultural Sciences
First Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Because of the importance of drug addiction this thesis will consider the problem of narcotics in the United States medically, sociologically, and psychologically and will offer possible solutions through education, legislation, and medicine. Other works on this subject are: "The Opium Problem", by Dr. Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens, and the many pamphlets published yearly by the Narcotics Bureau of the Treasury Department from 1929 to 1937. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first part discusses the problem of Narcotics, and the second part discusses the possible solutions to the problem. The first part is made up of four chapters: The History of Narcotics and a General Discussion of the Problem; Medical Aspects of the Problem; Psychological Effects of Drug Taking; and the Sociological Aspects or the Question, which is divided into four respective parts, namely: (a.) The Inability of Drug Addicts to Compete, (b) Relation of Narcotics to Poverty, (c) Relation of Narcotics to the Family, (d) Relation of Narcotics to the State. The second part includes the possible solutions to the problem: By Legislation, By Education and By Medicine.
Recommended Citation
Wiley, Margaret Esther, "The Narcotic Problem and its Possible Solutions" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 1270.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1270
Included in
Health Psychology Commons, Medicine and Health Commons, Other Psychology Commons, Pain Management Commons
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.