Opium use in English society in the nineteenth century was completely unrestricted until 1868, when the first Pharmacy Act became law. The first chapters …

Morphine use and the problem, as medically defined, of hypodermic self-administration were closely connected with the medical elaboration of a disease view of addiction. Addiction …

If Dr Anstie or Sir Arthur Pease, De Quincey or some nameless back-street seller of laudanum, or some others of the great range of relevant …

  Two other drugs have long been thought of, along with opium, as `dangerous narcotics‘. The same problem framework was applied to cannabis and cocaine. …

The `opium wars‘ of the middle of the century have long been a familiar part of considerations of nineteenth-century opium use. But the most important …

The bulk of the opium used in England at this time was thus imported. But there were also small-scale attempts at domestic cultivation of the …

Manuscript collections 1. Public Record Office Home Office papers, H.O. 45 series. Dealing with the sale of poisons, patent medicines, and the operation of the …

Addiction is the word which is popularly in use to describe compulsive drug taking. In scientific writing the word (and the underlying concept) has to …

One of the reasons why opiates featured so frequently in the poisoning statistics when they were first published officially in the 1860s was the extensive …