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
- Books
A short history of drunkenness / Mark Forsyth.
Forsyth, MarkDate: 2017- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself- Books
Kranewitt : Untersuchungen zu den altdeutschen Übersetzungen des nordischen Wacholderbeertraktats / Sabine Kurschat-Fellinger.
Kurschat-Fellinger, Sabine, 1950-Date: 1983- Books
The recovering : intoxication and its aftermath / Leslie Jamison.
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Alcohol Concern
Health Education CouncilDate: 1988Reference: SA/HEC/B/3/131Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority