Stories
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
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Alcohol and alcoholic intoxication / by Edward Mellanby.
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, 1884-1955.Date: [1920?]- Books
Acute alcoholic intoxication : a critical review / by Henry W. Newman, M.D.
Newman, Henry Wise, 1907-Date: [1941], ©1941- Books
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On ether-drinking and extra-alcoholic intoxication / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896.Date: [between 1876 and 1896?]- Books
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On chronic alcoholic intoxication, or, Alcoholic stimulants in connexion with the nervous system : with a synoptical table of cases / by W. Marcet.
Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.Date: 1860- Books
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On chronic alcoholic intoxication, or Alcoholic stimulants in connexion with the nervous system; with a synoptical table of cases / By W. Marcet.
Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.Date: 1860