Opium and the People : Opiate Use and Policy in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Britain Book

	Preface to the 1999 edition
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. 1	The Import and Cultivation of Opium at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
1	The Import Trade	3
2	The Cultivation of Opium in Britain 1790-1820	11
Pt. 2	Opium Use in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
3	Open Sale and Popular Use	21
4	Opium in the Fens	38
5	Opiate Use in Literary and Middle-Class Society	49
6	Opium in Medical Practice	62
Pt. 3	The Beginnings of Restriction c.1830-60: The Public Health Case
7	'A Peculiar Sopor': Opium Poisoning and the Longevity Debate	75
8	The Adulteration of Opium	87
Pt. 4	Class Tensions
9	Opium and the Workers: 'Infant Doping' and 'Luxurious Use'	97
Pt. 5	The Professionals and Opium c. 1860-1900: Professionalization and Availability
10	The 1868 Pharmacy Act	113
11	The Patent Medicine Question	123
Pt. 6	The Professionals and Opium c. 1860-1900: The Use of Opium and Its Alkaloids
12	Morphine and Its Hypodermic Use	135
13	The Ideology of Opium: Opium Eating as a Disease	150
Pt. 7	The Eastern Dimension and British Opium Use c. 1860-1900
14	'Britain's Opium Harvest': The Anti-Opium Movement	173
15	The Myth of the Opium Den in Late Victorian England	195
Pt. 8	The End of the Century
16	The Other 'Narcotics': Cannabis and Cocaine	209
17	Opium at the End of the Century	225
Pt. 9	Problems and Policy: The Origins of British Drug Control 1900-30
18	Internationalism, War and Drug Control 1900-18	235
19	Medicine, Drugs and the Law: The Establishment of Drug Control Policy in the 1920s	258
20	Conclusion: The Rest of the Century	279
Table 1	The Sources and Quantities of England's Opium Imports 1827-1900	292
Table 2	Import and Home Consumption of Opium 1827-60	294
Table 3	Narcotic Deaths 1863-1910	295
Table 4	Narcotic Deaths by Age 1863-1908	296
App	The Nature and Significance of Addiction	298
	References	302
	Bibliography	355
	Additional Bibliography	379
	Index	387