Pain Read Free Page B

Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
    28 . Oxycodone production around 1948–50 stood at 9 kilograms; by 1960 it was 569 kilograms. Mentioned by Edward Bloomquist, MD, Los Angeles member of the Committee on Dangerous Drugs, California Medical Association in his “The Addiction Potential of Oxycodone (Percodan),”
California Medicine
99, no. 2 (August 1963): 127–30. See also Nathan Eddy, H. Halbach, and Olav Braenden, “Synthetic Substances with Morphine-Like Effect: Clinical Experience: Potency, Side Effects, Addiction Liability,”
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
17 (1957): 569–863.
    29 . Peter Bart, “Aspirin Consumption Increases with the Nation’s Headaches,”
New York Times
, March 26, 1961, F1; John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967
(New York: Penguin, 2010); for Frank Erving, see “Attack on Pain,”
Time
, March 2, 1959, 32, 34. As Dominique Tobbell has noted, “Retail pharmacists were struggling to meet the demands placed on them by the ever-expanding market of prescription drugs.” Dominique A. Tobbell, “‘Eroding the Physician’s Control of Therapy’: The Postwar Politics of the Prescription,” in
Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in America
, ed. Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 68.
    30 . Paul DeKruif, “God’s Own Medicine,”
Reader’s Digest
, June 1946, 15; for Senate testimony, see William Moore, “Addict Reveals Use of Dope by Chicago Pupils,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, June 27, 1951, 8; and “Stiffer Sentence for Selling Drugs to Minors Proposed,”
Washington Post
, July 26, 1951, 9; for “my first shot of dope …,” see David Courtwright, Herman Joseph, and Don Des Jarlais, eds.,
Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America, 1923–1965
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989), 56; for “he had become addicted …,” see Harold Hinton, “Three Minors Recount Narcotic Scourge,”
New York Times
, June 27, 1951, 19.
    31 . For “has become the fastest-selling …,” see “Wonder Drugs and Mental Disorders,”
Consumer Reports
, August 1955, 388; see also“Don’t-Give-a-Damn-Pills,”
Time
, February 27, 1956, 98; for deinstitutionalization, see “Importance of Tranquil Drugs Noted: May Outweigh Atomic Power, Psychiatrist Tells Congress,”
Baltimore Sun
, February 12, 1958, 3.
    32 . “‘Ideal’ in Tranquility,”
Newsweek
, October 29, 1956, 63; on Blatnik, see “Washington High Lights—Many Items Face Study,”
Christian Science Monitor
, July 15, 1957, 11; and “Promotion of Tranquilizing Drugs to Be Investigated,”
Baltimore Sun
, February 9, 1958, 3; “AMA Cover-Up on Ads Charged,”
New York Times
, January 29, 1960, 15.
    33 . Howard Snyder to Alfred Guenther, Supreme Commander, SHAPE, July 9, 1956, from Gettysburg, box 10, folder: Correspondence re DDE EIS thru LEI (3), Howard Snyder Paper, Dwight Eisenhower Library. See also Robert Gilbert, “Eisenhower’s 1955 Heart Attack: Medical Treatment, Political Effects, and the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Leadership Style,”
Politics and the Life Sciences
27, no. 1 (March 2008): 3.
    34 . For “an unusually large …,” John Bonica,
The Management of Pain
(Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1953), 5; for “though it is common …,” see Bonica,
Management of Pain
, 135.
    35 . Ibid., 73. Writing to the medical department of Smith, Kline, and French in 1955, he noted, “In the past I have used the 10 mg. ‘Dexedrine’ Spansule” for postoperative pain, “but I have found that the side effects, particularly depression of appetite and the jittery feeling, with this amount are