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The Legislation

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The Legislation

Throughout American history, a number of legislations have been changed and they have enacted between the period of 1970 and 2000. The Laissez-fair was one of the policies that were intended to minimize the role of government in the economic activities of the whole society and individuals. This resulted in the gendering of addiction among a number of youth in the United States.

During the 19th century, this was considered to be a popular opinion and belief systems in American society. Some of the proponents believed that this will result in the unregulated activities by the individuals. The main source to bring and introduce this concept is considered to be John Stuart Mill. He was one of the popular economists and his philosophy was used in the Principles of Political Economy. This initiates a debate over the supporting and contradictory views about the government activities in the state economic affairs. The functionalities of the state according to this philosophy were limited to only security and order in the state ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"otiPSsYi","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Keire, 1998)","plainCitation":"(Keire, 1998)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":664,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/smYQhi21/items/8ZVYIG2Y"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/smYQhi21/items/8ZVYIG2Y"],"itemData":{"id":664,"type":"article-journal","abstract":"The typical addict of the late nineteenth century was a middle-class woman who was a medical addict, while the typical twentieth-century addict was a young man of the urban lower classes who had experimented with drugs recreationally. Despite this dramatic demographic shift an important cultural continuity remained. The perceived femininity of addiction connected the middle-class medical addicts of the 1880s and 1890s to the street users of the 1910s and 1920s. By focusing on drug use by prostitutes, pimps, and the gay men known as fairies, this article argues that the long-standing association of addiction with femininity shaped society's perception of addiction, affected narcotics policy, and influenced the decision of men to incorporate drug use into their rejection of conventional masculinity.","archive":"JSTOR","container-title":"Journal of Social History","ISSN":"0022-4529","issue":"4","page":"809-822","source":"JSTOR","title":"Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century","title-short":"Dope Fiends and Degenerates","volume":"31","author":[{"family":"Keire","given":"Mara L."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1998"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Keire, 1998). It was believed that any kind of interference in the economic affairs may have resulted in hindrances regarding the development of individuals and their choices. The Laissez-Faire emphasized the government’s role in the endurance of the law and order in the United States.

This resulted in the acute changes in the industrial growth and this guiding principle was considered to be and insufficient in the development of the nation, this yielded to the Keynesian economics in the early 20th century. Before this, the unemployment ration increased, and it was not possible to decrease this ratio for the government without any interference of the state. This unemployment resulted in a higher intake of substance abuse and opioid among the youth. However, the interference by the government became mandatory to overcome the unemployment, and substance abuse.

References

Keire, M. L. (1998). Dope fiends and degenerates: The gendering of addiction in the early twentieth century. Journal of Social History, 809-822.