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  • A message in German that drug problems concern everyone; one of a series of posters from a 'Stop AIDS' campaign by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz in collaboration with the Office of Federal Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Poppy seed (Papaver somniferum)
  • A syringe forming the 'i' of AIDS with the message: "AIDS. Don't trust other people's fixes" representing an advertisement by the AIDS-Koordination NRW. Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen.
  • A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • Baldwin's Bilious and Liver Pills : cures sickness, dizziness, shoulder pains, yellowness of the eyes, skin, brown or yellow coated tongue, bile, jaundice, constipation, piles, all liver troubles.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Three Turkish soldiers gathered round a fire in the dark, smoking pipes. Lithograph by T. Allom, ca. 1839.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • A shelf of bottles containing medicinal chemicals, with dried herbs suspended from a hook. Watercolour by Lucy Pierce.
  • A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Dispensing robot in pharmacy
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by D. Deuchar after J. van der Vliet.
  • Microparticle drug delivery
  • A young black man in a tracksuit holding a towel representing the risks involved in dabbling with drugs; advertisement about AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A woman in a short polka dot skirt leans back as a man standing in front of her grabs her hands in the act of making love; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements for Swedish addiction support groups including the AIDS delegation, the Federation of alcohol and drug awareness, Youth Federation and Soldiers Against Drugs. Colour lithograph by Rex, 1992.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: working area in the materia medica stores. Photograph.
  • A woman drug-user in a white jacket, belted striped top and sunglasses leans against a wall in an alleyway with a message about why she stopped sharing needles; part of the Project Safe campaign by Denver AIDS Prevention. Colour lithograph by Daniel Montano, 1991.
  • Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • Text on cocaine
  • A man injects drugs into his arm as he leans back with his eyes shut against a wall; a man sitting beside a grave clutching a photograph of a woman and child; a warning about the dangers of drug abuse and AIDS by Programa Compañeros. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man and woman kiss while sitting in shallow sea water; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements for Swedish addiction support groups including the AIDS delegation, the Federation of alcohol and drug awareness, Youth Federation and Soldiers Against Drugs. Colour lithograph by Gamma, 1992.
  • The Dutch maid (De Nederlandse Maagd), personifying the Netherlands asks an apothecary whether a medicine might not be poisonous; symbolising doubts over a new Dutch tax law; he replies no, a babe-in-arms could take it. Process print after J. Braakensiek, 1890.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.
  • A bird with outstretched wings representing the Stichting de Regenboog (the Rainbow Foundation for the care of the homeless and drug-addicted) with the repeated word 'AIDS', 'drugs' and 'buddy'. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.