Timeline of psychoactive drugs

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This is a timeline of psychoactive drugs, focusing on their medical use in anesthesia, pain management, and mental disorders.

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Time period Development summary
Ancient times The use of natural extracts for medicinal purposes goes back thousands of years.[1] Most likely discovered through a combination of trial and error, early medicines often had as much religious and spiritual significance as they did healing importance. Plants were the basis of the ancient medicines, and were complemented with minerals and animal substances. Often the same plants and herbs were used for similar diseases among different civilizations, even though they were discovered separately.[2]
5th–15th century During the Middle Ages, opium continues to be used and abused in several societies.[3] However, treatment of disease through development of new herbal remedies may have been very difficult in an environment where the prevailing attitude is that disease is God’s punishment for sin. Practitioners of herbal remedies would often be seen as heretics. Medical progress is very weak due to the prevailing unscientific opinion.[2]
14th–17th century During the Renaissance, the development of medicinal remedies in Europe is reborn. In the 15th century, Italian anatomists use opium to sedate prisoners before performing dissections on them.[3] Paracelsus brings opium into the European pharmacopoeia in the early 16th century, and also develops the modern concept of dose dependency for drug action and toxicity.[2]
18th century Opium is often used not only as a painkiller, but also as a stimulant or nervous sedative.[3]

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Year Event type Details Geographical location
50,000 years ago Neanderthal burial site in Iraq is found to contain remains of the herbal stimulant ephedra. Palaeolithic cave art across Europe and Africa suggests artists had experience of hallucinogens (or possibly migraines).[4] Iraq
c.10,000 BC Earliest agriculture. Some evidence that the first crops include psychoactive plants such as mandrake, tobacco, coffee and cannabis.[4]
c.7000 BC Betel seeds, chewed for their stimulant effects, are found in archaeological sites in Asia.[4][5]
c.6000 BC Tobacco is cultivated and used by native South Americans.[5][4]
c.5000 BC The Sumerians already make use of opium.[6]
c.4200 BC Opium poppy seed pods are found in a burial site at Albuñol, Spain.[4][5] Spain
c.4000 BC Wine and beer are being produced in Egypt and Sumeria.[4] Egypt, Near East, Middle East
c.3500 BC The description of a brewery in an an Egyptian papyrus is the earliest historical record of the production of alcohol.[6]
c.3000 BC The use of tea in China originates around this time.[6] China
c.3000 BC Cannabis is cultivated in China and other regions of Asia; evidence of cannabis smoking is also found in eastern Europe.[6][5]
c.2500 BC Early historical evidence of the eating of poppy seeds among the Lake Dwellers on Switzerland.[6] Switzerland
c.2000 BC Coca residues are found in the hair of Andean mummies.[4][5]
c.1000 BC Central Americans erect temples to mushroom gods.[5]
800 BC Introduction Distilled spirits and rice beer originate in India.[4][7][8] India
1493 Introduction Columbus and his crew introduce tobacco in Europe.[6] Europe
c.1525 Introduction Swiss physician Paracelsus introduces laudanum, or tincture of opium, into the practice of medicine.[9][6] Switzerland
1551 Publication English physician William Turner advocates the use of the opium poppy in his herbal treatise, the first one to be published in the English language. United Kingdom
1625–1665 Introduction In response to outbreaks of plague in London, mithridatium, based on a complex formulation including opium, is one of the main recommended remedies.[3] United Kingdom
1750–1799 Introduction English botanist William Withering introduces the digitalis, an extract from the plant foxglove, for treatment of cardiac problems.[10] United Kingdom
1753 Publication Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus publishes his Species Plantarum, which first classifies the opium poppy as Papaver Somniferum, which literally means "sleep–inducing".[3] Sweden
1760s Introduction English physician Thomas Sydenham popularizes laudanum.[11] United Kingdom
1762 Introduction English physician Thomas Dover introduces his prescription for a diaphoretic powder, which he recommends mainly for the treatment of gout. Soon named “Dover’s powder”, this compound becomes the most widely used opium preparation during the next 150 years.[6][3] United Kingdom
1806 Introduction German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner manages to extract morphine from opium, launching the first generation of true drugs.[2][6] Germany
1821 Isolation German chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge extracts caffeine from coffee beans for the first time.[12] Germany
1828 Isolation Nicotine is first isolated from the tobacco plant by physician Wilhelm Heinrich Posselt and chemist Karl Ludwig Reimann of Germany, who consider it a poison.[13][14]
1840s Introduction Lithium is first used to treat bladder stones and gout.[15]
1841 Treatment French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau uses hashish in treatment of mental patients at the Bicêtre Hospital.[6][16][17][18] France
1841 Discovery Russian chemist Alexander Voskresensky first discovers theobromine.[19]
1842 Scientific development French physiologist Claude Bernard discovers that the arrow poison curare acts at the neuromuscular junction to interrupt the stimulation of muscle by nerve impulses.[20]
1844 Isolation Cocaine is isolated in its pure form.[6]
1850s Treatment Opiates are injected to treate neuralgia.[3]
1864 Synthesis Adolf von Baeyer in Ghent synthesizes barbituric acid, the first barbiturate.[6] Belgium
1869 Discovery The first synthetic drug, chloral hydrate, is discovered and introduced as a sedative-hypnotic.[21]
1869 Treatment English physician Clifford Allbutt recommends the injection of morphine to treat heart disease.[3][22] United Kingdom
1875 Treatment Dr. Anderson recommends the injection of morphine to treat asthma.[3]
1880 Isolation Hyoscine is isolated. The drug would later be extensively used in psychiatry.[23]
1884 Introduction Cocaine is first introduced as a local anesthetic.[15]
1886 Patent The recipe for Coca-Cola is patented, including coca leaves and caffeine-rich kola nuts. in 1906 Coca leaves would be removed from the recipe for Coca-Cola.[4] United States
1887 Synthesis Amphetamine is synthesized in Germany.[4] Germany
1893 Synthesis Methamphetamine is first synthesized from ephedrine.[24] Japan
1898 Synthesis Diacetylmorphine (heroin) is synthesized in Germany.[6] Germany
1905 Discovery German chemist Alfred Einhorn discovers the injectable local anesthetic procaine, which would become Novocain.[15]
1912 Synthesis 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is synthesised by pharmaceutical firm Merck.[4]
1912 Introduction Phenobarbital is introduced into therapeutics under the trade name of Luminal.[6]
1954 Introduction Benztropine is commercially introduced.[25]
1958 Discovery Denatonium is discovered during research on local anesthetics by MacFarlan Smith of Edinburgh, Scotland, and registered under the trademark Bitrex.[26] United Kingdom
1964 Synthesis Romanian chemist Corneliu E. Giurgea synthesizes nootropic piracetam, a compound shown to boost memory, learning, creativity, verbal fluency, and brain circulation.[27]
1968 Synthesis Memantine is first synthesized.[28]
1969 Synthesis Bupropion is first synthesized.[29]
1985 Introduction Scientists at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals develop quetiapine.[30]

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  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named A_SHORT_HISTORY_OF_DRUG_DISCOVERY
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The History of Therapeutic Drug Development". twistbioscience.com. Retrieved 19 February 2018. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Stolberg, Victor B. Painkillers: History, Science, and Issues. 
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 "Timeline: Drugs and Alcohol". newscientist.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Plant, Martin. Drug Nation: Patterns, Problems, Panics & Policies. 
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 "Timeline of Events in the History of Drugs". inpud.wordpress.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018. 
  7. ↑ Maiya, Harish. The King of Good Times. 
  8. ↑ Dasgupta, Amitava; Langman, Loralie J. Pharmacogenomics of Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse. 
  9. ↑ Deming, David. Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3: The Black Death, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. 
  10. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named HISTORY_OF_DRUG_DISCOVERY_AND_DEVELOPMENT
  11. ↑ Kamieński, Łukasz. Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War. 
  12. ↑ Hayes, Dayle; Laudan, Rachel. Food and Nutrition/Editorial Advisers, Dayle Hayes, Rachel Laudan. 
  13. ↑ "Medicinal uses of tobacco in history". PMC 1079499Freely accessible. Retrieved 9 March 2018. 
  14. ↑ Magazin für Pharmacie, Volume 6; Volumes 23-24. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 GELMAN, LAUREN. "The Accidental History of 10 Common Drugs". rd.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018. 
  16. ↑ Emboden, William A. Narcotic plants. 
  17. ↑ Booth, Martin. Cannabis: A History. 
  18. ↑ Boon, Marcus. The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. 
  19. ↑ von Bibra,, Baron Ernst; Ott, Jonathan. Plant Intoxicants: A Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants. 
  20. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named A_brief_history_of_pharmacology
  21. ↑ Jones, AW. "Early drug discovery and the rise of pharmaceutical chemistry". PMID 21698778. doi:10.1002/dta.301. 
  22. ↑ Padwa, Howard. Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821--1926. 
  23. ↑ A history of psychiatry: from the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac. 
  24. ↑ Haight, Wendy; Ostler, Teresa; Black, James; Kingery, Linda. Children of Methamphetamine-Involved Families: The Case of Rural Illinois. 
  25. ↑ Krantz, John Christian; Carr, Charles Jelleff; Aviado, Domingo M. Krantz and Carr's Pharmacologic principles of medical practice: a textbook on pharmacology and therapeutics for students and practitioners of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry. 
  26. ↑ "DENATONIUM". edinformatics.com. Retrieved 9 March 2018. 
  27. ↑ "Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea – The Father of Nootropics". noomind.org. Retrieved 9 March 2018. 
  28. ↑ Lertxundi, Unax; Medrano, Juan; Hernández, Rafael. Psychopharmacological Issues in Geriatrics. 
  29. ↑ Stolberg, Victor B. ADHD Medications: History, Science, and Issues. 
  30. ↑ Riedel, Michael; Müller, Norbert; Strassnig, Martin; Spellmann, Ilja; Severus, Emanuel; Möller, Hans-Jürgen. "Quetiapine in the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders". PMC 2654633Freely accessible. 
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