Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

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Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

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Topics: the import and cultivation of opium in the 19th century; British opium use; the beginnings of restriction; class tensions; workers and opium; infant doping; professionals and opium; anti-opium movement; the myth of the "opium den" in late Victorian England; cannabis; cocaine; etc.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Free Association Books
  • Edition: Revised Edition
  • Date Published: 1999
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: 1853434140

Details

  • Condition: Fine
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    xxxiii, 419, [2] p. 23 cm. Maps, illustrations and tables.

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