Narcotics

In 1919, in the face of mounting drug addiction, the United States Department of the Treasury attempted to control this epidemic by opening treatment clinics across the country. Most of them failed miserably, but Dr. Willis Butler, who served as Caddo Parish Coroner for almost f…

This dissertation focuses on historic changes in public perception of narcotic use and abuse from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. From the 1840s to the outbreak of Civil War, politicians, physicians, the general public, and state and federal government remained …