Opium And The People: Opiate Use In Nineteenth Century England by Virginia Berridge, Griffith Edwards

Opium And The People: Opiate Use In Nineteenth Century England

Virginia Berridge, Griffith Edwards

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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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