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Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulation (ACMPR) (2016)
activism: consumer; in film (see Dallas Buyers Club); movements; quackery
addiction
African Americans
AIDS
alcohol
alternative medicine: for cancer; for HIV/AIDS; ketamine as; medical knowledge; for pain
Ambrose, Rona
American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
Annals of Internal Medicine
Anslinger, Harry J.
Anti-Drug Abuse Act (1986)
anxiety
arthritis
AstraZeneca
Banting, William
Baum, L. Frank
Bayer
beauty standards
Bégin, Monique
Berridge, Virginia
Better Homes and Gardens
Black Panthers
Blagojevich, Rod
Brave New World
British Journal of Addiction
British Medical Association
British Medical Journal
Buckley, William F., Jr
Bureau of Narcotics
Burroughs, William S.
Bush, George W.
Canadian Association of Retail Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (CARPRA)
Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
Canadian Medical Association (CMA)
Canadian Medical Cannabis Industry Association
Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA)
Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
cancer: Canadian Cancer Association; Canadian Cancer Society; Committee for the Treatment of Intractable Pain (CTIP); war on
cannabis: activism; dispensaries; science. See also medical marijuana
Carter, Jimmy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Chinese medicine. See alternative medicine
Choice (magazine)
Ciba-Geigy
class, socioeconomic
clinical knowledge. See medical knowledge
Clinton, Bill
Compassionate Pain Relief Act (1984)
Compound Q. See also activism; HIV/AIDS; medical knowledge
Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Control Act (1970)
Congress (US), investigations and hearings
conservatism; and counter-culture; and free-market choice; and pain; think tanks
Conservative Party (Britain)
Conservative Party (Canada)
Consumer Health Care Products Association (CHPA)
counterculture. See also activism; alternative medicine
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC)
C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network)
culture
Customs Service and Border Patrol (CBP)
Dallas Buyers Club
Dangerous Drug Act (1967)
Democratic Party (US)
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
depression. See also mental illness
diet manuals
Dilaudid
Dingell, John
Dole, Robert J.
Dorgan, Byron
drug careers
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act (1984)
Easy Rider (film)
economy
Ecstasy. See MDMA
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Engel, Greg
EpiPen (epinephrine)
Epp, Jake
ethnicity. See also race
exercise
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
feminism
Fen-Phen
Fish, Hamilton, Jr
Fletcher, Horace
Fonda, Henry
Fonda, Jane
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foster, Zelda
freedom, medical. See also individuality; libertarianism
French Connection, The (film)
Gabriel, Joseph M.
Gass, Mel
Geller, Hillary
gender. See also feminism
Geyer, Mark
Ghent, William
Gifford-Jones, W.
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsberg, Allen
Globe and Mail, The
Goldwater, Barry
Harper, Stephen
Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
Hatch, Orrin
Health Canada
heroin: advocacy; celebrity deaths; committees; evidence. See also medical knowledge; race
Herzberg, David
highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). See also HIV/AIDS
Hilts, Philip J.
HIV/AIDS
holism. See also alternative medicine
hospice movement: International Congresses in Care for the Dying; McGill Pain Questionnaire; St Christopher’s. See also Saunders, Cicely; Twycross, Robert
Hubbard, William
Huxley, Aldous
immune systems
individuality. See also activism; freedom; libertarianism
insulin shock therapy
insurance
international medicine. See also medical tourism; World Health Organization
Johnson & Johnson
Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Kassebaum, Nancy
Kefauver, Estes
Kefauver Harris Drug Amendments (1962)
Kennedy, Donald
Kennedy, Edward
Kennedy, John F.
Kerrio, Vincent
Kerry, John
Kesey, Ken
Kessler, David
ketamine
Kleps, Arthur
Knoll Pharmaceutical Company
Krebs, Ernst T., Jr
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
La Grande, Lois
Laetrile. See alternative medicine: for cancer
Laing, Ronald
Lamers, William M.
Lasagna, Louis
Le Dain Commision
Leary, Timothy
Lehman, Heinz
Lennon, John
Liberal Party (Canada)
libertarianism
Lowinger, Paul
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): in counter-culture; in film; Albert Hofmann, discovery by; NGOs; science
Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) (2001)
Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) (2014)
marijuana. See cannabis; medical marijuana
Marks, John
Martin, Paul, Sr
McCain, John
McCarthy, Jenny
McClellan, Mark
McGrath, James
McQueen, Steve
MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine; Ecstasy)
media
Medical Advisory Committee on the Management of Severe Pain
medical knowledge: competition; general; manipulation of; production of
medical marijuana: Bedrocan; Canadian Veterans Advocacy; CanniMed; Mark Hauk; industry; Tweed Marijuana. See also cannabis
medical tourism
mental illness. See also depression; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychopharmaceuticals; schizophrenia
Merck
Misuse of Drugs Bill (1971)
Mount, Balfour
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
Mylan
Narcotics Control Act
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth
National Institute of Drug Abuse
National Women’s Health Network (NWHN)
Nature
Nature Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
New York Times
Nicholson, Jack
Nixon, Richard
North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI)
nutrition
Nutt, David
Operation Gray Lord
Osmond, Humphry
Oz, Mehmet (Dr Oz)
pain. See under alternative medicine
palliative care. See hospice movement
Patented Medicines Price Review Board (PMPRB)
patients: decision-making by; health of; treatments of; safety of. See also activism; alternative medicine; medical knowledge
Peptide T. See also activism; HIV/AIDS; medical knowledge
peyote
pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA)
phencyclidine (PCP)
phenylpropanolamine (PPA); evidence against; hearings on; in media
Pivot Legal Society, the
poison
popular culture
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
prevention: of cancer; of crime
Prevention
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Public Citizen
public health
Purdue Pharma
Pure Green Coffee
psychiatry: radicalism; therapeutic revolution
psychopharmaceuticals
quackery. See also medical knowledge; scientific consensus
Quattlebaum, Judith
race
Rangel, Charles
Reagan, Ronald
Reefer Madness
Republican Party (US)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Rumsfeld, Donald
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals
Saskatoon
Saunders, Cicely
schizophrenia. See also mental illness; psychiatry
Scientific American
scientific consensus
Self (magazine)
sexuality. See also activism; gender
Shalala, Donna
Shkreli, Martin
smoking. See also tobacco
Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP)
Stabenow, Debbie
steroids
stigma
Swiss Medical Society for Psycholytic Therapy
Symms, Steven D.
Szasz, Thomas
Temple of Delphi
Thompson Medical Company
Thompson, Tommy
Time (magazine)
tobacco. See also smoking
tourism, medical. See medical tourism
Trudeau, Justin
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
Trump, Donald
Turner, John
Twycross, Robert
US National Science Board
vaccination
Vietnam War
violence
vitamin B-17 (Laetrile). See alternative medicine: for cancer
vitamins
Wailoo, Keith
Walker, Kenneth. See Gifford-Jones, W.
Wall Street Journal
War on Drugs
Ware, Mark
water therapy (pro-baths)
Waxman, Henry
Wilson, Brett
Wolfe, Sidney M. See also activism
Woodroof, Ron
World Health Organization (WHO)
World War I
World War II
Wyden, Ron
Yale Hemorrhagic Stroke Project (HSP)
youth
Zettl, Brent