Dope Girls
Subtitle: The Birth of the British Drug Underground
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Granta Books; Granta UK; Granta
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781862074064
Subjects: British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Social history; History - General History; History; History: American; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; General
First sentence: Drugs have lost their history.
Description: In this work the author examines the cocaine scandals and moral panics which followed the end of the First World War, as drug use (especially of opium and cocaine, only criminalized in 1916) was transformed into a national menace.