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'Drug Misuse in Britain: National Audit of Drug Misuse Statistics'
Date: 1990-1996Reference: SA/DRS/A/2/6Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Advanced Medicine Conference
Date: 1969Reference: SA/DRS/L/19Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Central Independent Television
Date: c.1985Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/69bPart of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
National Family & Parenting Institute
Date: October 2001Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/299Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Scottish Drugs Forum National Conference
Date: 1995Reference: SA/DRS/L/272Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues (OGD)
Date: c.1991Reference: SA/DRS/F/5/6Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Soma Research Association
Date: c. 1968-1969Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/385Part of: DrugScope
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Archaeological Society of Athens
Date: 1965Reference: SA/DRS/F/7/1Part of: DrugScope
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The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI. & XXII. Victoria, CAP. XC. (1858) and XXV. & XXVI. Victoria, CAP. XCI. (1862).
General Medical Council.Date: [1893]- Archives and manuscripts
Manchester Council for Voluntary Service
Date: c.1986Reference: SA/DRS/B/2/130aPart of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Fit Publications
Date: c.1990Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/77aPart of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation in fiscal year 1981 - annual report
Date: 1981Reference: SA/DRS/C/3/1/10/29Part of: DrugScope
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Advertisement for Dr Johnson's Yellow Ointment
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Addiction Consultation and Evaluation, P.C.
Date: 1974Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/2Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Third Workshop on Drug Policy Oriented Research
Date: 1985Reference: SA/DRS/L/197Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Mayor of London
Date: 2005Reference: SA/DRS/B/2/132Part of: DrugScope
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Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
Sue Snell
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Die Arzneimittel-Synthese auf Grundlage der Beziehungen zwischen chemischem Aufbau und Wirkung : für Ärzte und Chemiker / von Sigmund Fränkel.
Fränkel, Sigmund, 1868-Date: 1906- Archives and manuscripts
MIND
Date: 1977-1988Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/277Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
'SCODA Members Briefing'
Date: 1994-1999Reference: SA/DRS/A/1/2Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Narcotics Anonymous
Date: 1983-1991Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/118Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
General and legislative documents
Date: 1966-1989Reference: SA/DRS/C/3/22/1Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Clinical Proceedings, Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia
Date: 1968Reference: SA/DRS/L/12Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
North American Congress on Alcohol and Drug Problems
Date: 1974Reference: SA/DRS/L/103Part of: DrugScope