Social poison
Subtitle: the culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821-1926
By: Howard Padwa
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781421404202
Subjects: Drug control; Opioid abuse; History, 19th Century; Public Opinion; Drug and Narcotic Control; Opioid-Related Disorders; History; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining the meditative nation : constructing the opium experience; title: Anti-narcotic nationalism : the feared consequences of recreational opiate use; title: The era of national narcotics control : the drug wars begin; title: Control and its discontents : the plight of the addicted under opiate control.