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White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916-1960 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916-1960 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book traces the history of the London 'white drugs' (opiate
and cocaine) subculture from the First World War to the end of the
classic 'British System' of drug prescribing in the 1960s. It also
examines the regulatory forces that tried to suppress non-medical
drug use, in both their medical and juridical forms. Drugs
subcultures were previously thought to have begun as part of the
post-war youth culture, but in fact they existed from at least the
1930s. In this book, two networks of drug users are explored, one
emerging from the disaffected youth of the aristocracy, the other
from the night-time economy of London's West End. Their drug use
was caught up in a kind of dance whose steps represented cultural
conflicts over identity and the modernism and Victorianism that
coexisted in interwar Britain.
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