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Fierce Chemistry - A History of UK Drug Wars (Hardcover)
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Fierce Chemistry - A History of UK Drug Wars (Hardcover)
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List price R591
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Discovery Miles 5 320
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In July 1920, when the first Dangerous Drugs Act was passed, the UK
drug scene was limited to small groups of Soho night people smoking
opium and sniffing coke, and some middle- and upper-class people
(mainly women) around the country quietly getting private morphine
prescriptions from their GP. Now, exactly 100 years on, we have
hundreds of thousands of people using a whole smorgasbord of
different drugs. How did that happen? The nineteenth century saw
scientific developments whose unintended consequences laid the
foundations for the modern explosion of recreational and chronic
drug use, which has in turn sparked a worldwide effort to stop it.
At first encouraged by the commercial opportunities afforded by
widespread 'cures' - many consisting of little more than heroin or
cocaine - by the twentieth century a moral crusade had gathered
force to curb this new social ill. In truth, although the dangers
of drug use were very real, the origins of the war against drugs
stemmed from wider fears in society. In this new book, the
culmination of a lifetime of research and writing on the topic,
Harry Shapiro isolates the different elements behind the war on
drugs to present an issue reaching boiling point. Using a range of
interviews, documentation, private papers, government archives and
studies from the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence,
Shapiro synthesises a tale of crime, money, politics and
exploitation bigger than any country.
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