Drug Use and Abuse Education in Post-Counterculture America: Archive of 13 Anti-Drug Educational Pamphlets, 1960s–1990s1960s-90s

Drug education pamphlets

Pamphlet

Drug education pamphlets issued across the late twentieth century recording the shift from the publicization of recreational drug use in the 1960s into the broader drug crisis language of the crack era and the AIDS years, when intoxication, dependency, overdose, and injection risk became central subjects of school and public health. These pamphlets reduce a wide range of drugs into a simple public warning system meant for students, parents, and other non-specialist readers. They sort marijuana, stimulants, depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens, and inhalants into clear categories, translate drug culture into recognizable slang and everyday terms, and stress the bodily, psychological, legal, and social consequences of use.
Archive of 13 educational drug safety pamphlets. 1960s-1990s, chiefly 1980s. United States. Multi-page folded and staple-bound pamphlets, ranging from 2.5" x 8" to 5.25" x 8.5", including seven color-coded Channing L. Bete drug-class pamphlets which include slang terms for each category and their side affects; a foldout Drug Abuse Products Reference Chart; a Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association identification folder; and six additional educational pieces on prescription drugs, marijuana, and drug-abuse identification, with references for educators and parents identifying “the effects of drug abuse” and “how to identify the user.”
Across these pieces, the public view of drugs after the counterculture era's focuses on the long term affects of usage with language centered on dependency, traffic injury, social incompetence, arrest, and health deterioration, with cocaine, heroin, and injectable drug use entering a climate already shaped by crack panic and by heightened fear surrounding blood-borne disease in the AIDS years. Prescription medicine abuse is not separated from illicit consumption here with tranquilizers, barbiturates, methaqualone, diet pills, and doctor-prescribed drugs appearing in the same educational field as heroin and crack. Minor creasing and toning; overall very good condition. This archive traces the broader American perspective shift on drugs from deviant recreation to public health and safety.

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