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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
Catalogue
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A treatise, on the true effects of drinking spirituous liquors, wine and beer, on body and mind. Absolutely necessary for every body.
Date: 1794- Books
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Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge.
Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden, 1857-1916.Date: 1907- Books
Drink? : the new science of alcohol + your health / David Nutt.
Nutt, David, 1951-Date: 2020- Books
The drunken monkey : why we drink and abuse alcohol / Robert Dudley.
Dudley, Robert, 1961-Date: [2014]- Books
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A dissertation on intemperance : to which was awarded the premium offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society / by William Sweetser.
Sweetser, William, 1797-1875.Date: 1829