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Dope Girls - The Birth Of The British Drug Underground (Paperback, New edition)
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Dope Girls - The Birth Of The British Drug Underground (Paperback, New edition)
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As entertaining as it is enlightening, "Dope Girls" vividly records
the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of
the First World War, as drug use--especially of morphine and
cocaine--was transformed into a national menace. The cast of
characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress,
whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled
public anxiety; Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor;
and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica--identified as the
villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual
menace. Around them swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious
hedonists. Britain was horrified and enthralled--the drug problem
was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. A cult classic in
Britain, "Dope Girls" remains both timely and instructive.
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