1: Past and Present
2: Culture: Drugs for all
3: Social Movements: Temperance
4: Professions: over the counter or disease?
5: Fear: the opium den
6: Industry
7: International arenas
8: Prohibition?
9: Changing cultures
10: Convergence across the substances?
Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She has published widely on the history of illicit drugs, smoking, and alcohol and has worked in both historical and non-historical settings.
Her work is both fascinating for the casual reader and challenging
for those who want a deeper understanding of substance abuse, its
history and its context
*Druglink Magazine, Ian Wardle*
[A] thought provoking history
*Judith Flanders, The Sunday Telegraph*
Entertaining
*Sean O'Grady, The Independent*
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