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  • A warning in Italian green lettering about seeking advice about drug addiction with a warning not to start taking drugs; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A young man surfing on a circular board with the message 'The real binge is within you'; 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 Sander-Liaison, 1992.
  • [Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].
  • [Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].
  • [Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].
  • [Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].
  • 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.
  • Nepal; street cleaning in Kathmandu, 1986. In the mid-1980s, Kathmandu was a mix of medieval architecture and urban sprawl. Television was a late-comer to Nepal but by the 1980s, the skyline of urban areas had become peppered with television aerials. Copying western culture and values became fashionable, and drug addiction amongst the young increased significantly during the decade.
  • An orange background bearing the white lettering: "Vous pouvez parler librement du SIDA, de la sexualité et de la toxicomanie. Votre médecin est tenu au secret professionnel." [You can talk freely of AIDS, sexuality and drug addiction. Your doctor is bound by professional secrecy]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [OFSP]. 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.
  • A winged woman with a skull as her head, standing in a man's pelvis, holding in one hand a bow and in the other a man's severed head. Soft ground etching by Félicien Rops.
  • Poppy seed (Papaver somniferum)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy) harvested.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Cocaine crystals
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Neurotransmitter in limbic areas of a human brain, PET
  • Morphine crystals
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Neurotransmitter in limbic areas of a human brain, PET
  • An orange background bearing the white message "Your doctor has a duty of confidentiality. And you have freedom of speech on AIDS, sexuality and drug problems"; an advertisement by the FMH / BAG in association with the Swiss Physicians and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.