Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Toxicological problems of drug combinations. Volume 13
Date: 1972Reference: SA/ETX/F/1/13Part of: Archive of EUROTOX and Predecessor Bodies- Videos
- Online
Drug interaction.
Date: 1973- Videos
Drug interaction.
Date: 1973- Ephemera
- Online
Mycolactine : a synergetic combination of bile extract, yeast, and lactic ferments.
Date: [between 1930 and 1940?]- Archives and manuscripts
Combination at the Albany
Date: c.1983Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/94aPart of: DrugScope