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The Journal of the American Medical Association condemns Chinese people for "instigating" opium use.

1900

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The journal prints the story of a young woman who learned to smoke opium from her Chinese students, and later died. They call for police raids on Chinese communities and use the language of white "virtue" being "polluted" by Chinese opium use.

Opium is framed as a foreign threat to hard-working, white Americans by authors for the American Medical Association (AMA) and later by the American Pharmaceutical Organization, which will declare in 1902 that: "if the Chinaman cannot get along without his 'dope,' we can get along without him."