Drug Use and Addiction in Hungary from the Second Half of the 19th Century until the Beginning of World War II

Abstract

In these days, most people may think that drug use as a social phenomenon in Hungary appeared in the 1990s. It was identified that the spread of drugs was the result of opening borders and freedom of movement. Most of us may not be able to imagine the picture of Hungarian drug users in the 19th–20th centuries. This paper tries to show the trends of drug use between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of World War II.