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Drugs -- Law and legislation

Here are entered works on the legal regulation of drugs. General and non-legal works on the control of drugs are entered under Drug control. Technical works on grade, quality, purity, and strength of drugs are entered under Drugs -- Standards.

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• Drugs
• Pharmaceutical policy
• Public health laws
• Drug control
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Law and legislation

• Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Drugs, Nonprescription -- Law and legislation
• Narcotic laws
• Patent medicines -- Law and legislation
• Drugs -- Labeling -- Law and legislation

• Drug control -- Law and legislation
• Drugs -- Laws and legislation
• Pharmaceutical industry -- Law and legislation
• Regulation of therapeutic goods

• The Drug Hang-Up: America's Fifty-Year Folly, by Rufus King (HTML at druglibrary.org)

• Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate, by Erich Goode (HTML at druglibrary.org)

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2013), by Jamie Fellner (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)

• Drug Labeling in Developing Countries (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Advice to Booksellers, Perfumers, &c. Not to Sell Any More Stamps with Their Medicines, (Patent Ones Excepted) Nor the Public to Pay for Them: Founded on Constitutional Principles, With Strictures on the Medicine Act, Respectfully Submitted to His Most Gracious Majesty, and Both Houses of Parliament (London: G. Wilkie, 1784), by F. B. Spilsbury (page images at NIH)

• Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Mohammad Monirul Azam (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Drug Labeling in Developing Countries (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Appraisal of the Safety of Chemicals in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics (Austin, TX: Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States, 1959), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The AAPS Journal (full serial archives)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under Medicare (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Assessing Selected Respiratory Therapy Modalities: Trends and Relative Costs in the Washington, D.C., Area (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment (1995), ed. by Richard A. Rettig and Adam Yarmolinsky (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bioavailability of Drugs to the Brain and Blood-Brain Barrier, ed. by Jerry Frankenheim and Roger M. Brown (PDF at NIH)

• Membranes and Barriers: Targeted Drug Delivery, ed. by Rao S. Rapaka (PDF at NIH)

• Behavioral Tolerance: Research and Treatment Implications, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Behavioral Tolerance: Research and Treatment Implications, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Lectures of Pharmacy: Exhibiting Exact Rules for Prescribing (London: Printed for J. Noon, 1744), by Hieronymus David Gaubius (page images at NIH)

• Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica, Together With a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments (first edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1899) (centenary facsimile reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon (second edition of the Merck Manual; New York and Chicago: Merck and Co., c1901) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1905 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (third edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fourth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fifth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analysis of Marijuana Policy, by National Research Council Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug-Acceptor Interactions (c2008), by Niels Bindslev (PDF and illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Testing Drugs for Physical Dependence Potential and Abuse Liability, ed. by Joseph V. Brady and Scott E. Lukas (PDF at NIH)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• The British Pharmaceutical Codex: An Imperial Dispensatory, for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists (first edition; London: Pharmaceutical Society, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (in English and Spanish; c2011), by Global Commission on Drug Policy (PDF files at globalcommissionondrugs.org)
• Drugs and Terrorism, 1984: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Investigation of the Link Between Drugs and Terrorism, August 2, 1984 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the U.S. (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1978), by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman, and Jeffrey Steinberg (PDF at wlym.com)

• Afghanistan, Five Years After 9/11 (2006), by United States House Committee on International Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (page images at Pitt)

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)
• War-Time Cook and Health Book (ca. 1917), by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company (page images at Duke)
• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Physical Pharmacy: Physical Chemical Principles in Pharmaceutical Science (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1960), by Alfred N. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Technology and Chemistry of Alkaloids (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Frank E. Hamerslag (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chemistry of Plant Constituents (revised edition; Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1943), by Ole Gisvold and Charles H. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Mohammad Monirul Azam (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy (4th edition; Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1917), by Lucius E. Sayre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traité des Simples (Arabic passages with French translation and commentary; 3 parts (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale t. 23, 25, and 26); Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1877-1883), by 'Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bayṭār, ed. by Lucien Leclerc (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Seven Sisters of Sleep: Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World (London: J. Blackwood, ca. 1860), by M. C. Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pharmaceutical Selling, "Detailing", and Sales Training (second edition; Scarsdale, NY: Heathcote-Woodbridge, 1959), by Arthur F. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.