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  • The front of a car: below, a couple kiss in the front of a car; above, the same car in a collision; warning about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse as a cause of AIDS in youths. Colour lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Numbered images and text including a family sitting talking, syringes with a red cross and a variety of condoms representing an advertisement from Laos for education about AIDS, the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and the importance of condoms and safe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Numbered images and text including 2 images of a couple making love, a woman lying attached to a drip receiving a blood transfusion, a syringe injecting into an arm and a group of pregnant women; an advertisement from Laos about safe sex and AIDS prevention and the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Hydrangea quercifolia W.Bartram Hydrangeaceae. Oak-leaved hydrangea. Distribution: South-eastern United States. Beta-dichroine a quinazolinone also called febrifugine from the leaves of hydrangeas is 64-100 times more potent than quinine as an antimalarial in animals, but extremely toxic. A synthesised tolyl derivative, methaqualone (2-methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone), was found to be a mild hypnotic, and marketed in the sleeping tablet, Mandrax. Widely abused and quickly banned by most countries. Illegal manufacture continues and in South Africa methaqualone is the commonest drug of abuse, mixed with cannabis and smoked. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Don't harm yourself ... : arm yourself with knowledge about drugs / NIDA.
  • A hand holds a card bearing the number '14' with the skeletal figure of death with other cards including the devil, a red rose, a family, a bottle and a syringe; advertisement for the Latino AIDS Project. Colour lithograph by Herbert Sigüenza, 1987.
  • Amsterdam: bird's eye view of the city as a place of drug users, overseen by crime, death and the devil. Colour lithograph after P. Pontiac, 1992.
  • A young black couple with their arms linked and a warning about the dangers of getting high and getting AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A group of Nigerians drinking, smoking, and using drugs at a table: AIDS awareness in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigeria Youth AIDS Programme, ca. 1998.
  • A mother who believes that an "Infants preservative" (medicine for infants) will preserve her child from danger in a collapsing house. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • A man's arm holds a syringe that is poised to inject a woman's arm within a red no entry sign; advertisement for the AIDS Project by the California Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.
  • A young woman aware of the risk of contracting AIDS through intravenous use of heroin or cocaine. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • A Chinese man sits smoking an opium pipe. Wood engraving after E. Ronjat.
  • A drug user advised to use a clean syringe to prevent HIV/AIDS; an advertisement for the Drogues Info Service by the CFES and Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, Secrétariat d'état à la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • A mosaic of handprints of children, some of which form a hypodermic syringe; representing the use of narcotic drugs by children. Colour lithograph, 200-.
  • A syringe with a hooked needle suggesting drugs get you hooked; organised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Are you spaced out? : close talking : taking the time to talk about how you feel / Axis, C.L.A.S.H., Rubberstuffers.
  • Are you spaced out? : close talking : taking the time to talk about how you feel / Axis, C.L.A.S.H., Rubberstuffers.
  • Two blue shapes torn in half to reveal an orange circle, as if the sun; an advertisement for the 1st national conference on AIDS prevention for drug users from 16 to 17 November 1994 at the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid; organised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • A man's hand gripping onto a leather strap used to inject drugs with the message 'remember clean needles'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson, a retired American professional basketball, wearing the USA flag and a gold medal with the message: "What can you do to avoid AIDS"; with the same image on the front cover of a book also entitled "Magic Johnson L'amour sans risque" published by J'ai Lu; an advertisement by the book publishers, J'ai Lu [from the Flammarion group]. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in a pink t-shirt injects a needle into the arm of another man who squints in pain with five illustrated steps for the sterilisation and safe disposal of needles; advertisment by the ACON, The AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Jamie Dunbar.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers, one reclines on a bed and the other sits. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.