Anti-Drug Campaigns
This person made the phrase "Just Say No" famous.
Who is Nancy Reagan?
30% of teens who vape nicotine go on to do this.
What is smoke cigarettes?
In this decade, Medicaid recipients started to receive intensive outpatient (IOP) as the preferred treatment option.
What are the 1990s?
This drug, native to the Americas, was one of the crops most heavily traded as part of the Transatlantic/Triangular Slave Trade.
What is tobacco?
In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States called this program "ineffective." In 2003, peer-reviewed scientific research concluded that people who complete it are more likely to abuse drugs than those who do not.
What is D.A.R.E.?
As of 2020, this percent of Americans report smoking cigarettes.
What is 12.5%?
In 1935, the Federal Narcotic Farm was opened in this city. This experimental prison facility housed drug offenders. Now called the Federal Medical Center, it is still open as a federal prison for those needing medical and mental health treatment.
What is Lexington, KY?
Sigmund Freud touted this substance as a cure for asthma, depression, hay fever, sexual impotence, and toothache pain, among other things.
What is cocaine?
While not explicitly named in the commercial, this drug was featured in a 1980s anti-drug campaign that used the phrase, "You, all right! I learned it by watching you!"
What is marijuana?
A six year study that concluded in 2019 found that those who smoked vapes instead of cigarettes had this % reduction in heart attacks, heart failure, and strokes.
What is 0%?
They found a 30%-40% reduction in risk of developing heart disease from a congenital heart condition or myocarditis but no reduction in heart attacks, heart failure, or strokes.
In 1948, drug addiction was discovered to be connected to the frontal cortex of the brain. For four years, this procedure was completed on those who had addictions to alcohol or drugs.
What are frontal lobotomies, or the surgical removal of the frontal lobe of the brain?
In the early 1900s, opponents of this drug created public campaigns to convince people that it caused people to rape and murder others. This view continued to be common for several decades.
What is marijuana?
The year this commercial premiered:
A 2008 study showed that 1 out of 5 smokers who used this for help were successful in quitting smoking cigarettes.
What is bupropion (Wellbutrin)?
In this year, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared drug dependence as a "legitimate disease."
What is 1987?
Sumerians began to use opium starting around this year.
What is 5000 BCE?
This series of commercials, which started in 2008, have become an internet meme.
What is Meth: Not Even Once?
This percent of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cases in the United States are linked to smoking.
What is 79%?
In 1879 the Keeley Cure was introduced, which involved injecting these substances into the blood stream of those addicted to alcohol, opiates, and/or nicotine.
What are gold, strychnine, and alcohol?
By 1900, it had been discredited.
In the late 19th Century, 2/3 of those battling opioid addiction in the US fell into this demographic (class and gender).
What are middle and upper class women (prescribed primarily for "menstrual issues")?