Opium and the People - Revised Edition: Opiate Use and Policy in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain (Revised Edition) by Virginia Berridge

Opium and the People - Revised Edition: Opiate Use and Policy in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain (Revised Edition)

Virginia Berridge

370 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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At the beginning of the 19th century, opium was widely used as an everyday remedy for common ailments. By the 1920s, it was classified as a dangerous drug. In an examination of the social context of drug taking in Victorian England, the book expla...

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