Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of early "Heroin Crisis" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Heroin, Harrison Drug Act, narcotic drugs, addicts
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between 1912 and 1919.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"State Board Will Strive to Stamp Out Drug Abuses"
The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, CT), December 13, 1912, Page 5, Image 5, col. 1.
"Say That Dr. Fink Prescribed Dope"
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, IN), December 8, 1913, Afternoon Edition, Image 1, col. 4.
"Boy of 19, Slave of Drugs, Seeks to Begin New Life"
Evening Public Leader (Philadelphia, PA), September 14, 1914, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1-2.
"Harrison Drug Act Takes Effect March 1"
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), February 17, 1915, Page 9, Image 9, col. 1.
"Ruined the Widow's Son - Must Pay Her Damages"
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), May 28, 1916, Image 48, col. 1-5.
"Dope Fiends Use Doctors to Get Drugs"
Evening Public Leader (Philadelphia, PA), September 8, 1916, Night Extra, Image 1, col. 7.
"The Spectre of the Drug Habit, and How to Lay It
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 6, 1919, Page 6, Image 70, col. 1-7.
"Drug Evil in Ogden and Elsewhere"
The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, Utah), April 28, 1919, Last Edition, Page 4, Image 4, col. 1.
"Pursuing Opium Sellers in New York"
The Washington Times, March 19, 1922, Sunday Morning, Image 44, col. 1.

Heroin Crisis (1898-1922): Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America