Stories
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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.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
Catalogue
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Headache cured : Dr. Mettaur's headache pills : a certain relief / Brown Chemical Company.
Brown Chemical Company.Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]
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A couple make love inside the head of a man with cans, bottles and cartons on the left and a syringe and drug paraphernalia on the right; a reminder about the dangers of not using condoms by the AIDS Action Council, ACT. Colour lithograph by KMcC, 1991.
Date: 1991Reference: 669790i- Books
What every manager needs to know about handling drug abuse in the workplace / Henry J. Balevic.
Balevic, Henry J.Date: [1985]
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An old man smokes a long-stemmed pipe, others water-pipes, in a Turkish coffee house. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, 1824.
Preziosi, Amadeo, 1816-1882.Date: 1924Reference: 25473i
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A Chinese man sits smoking an opium pipe. Wood engraving after E. Ronjat.
Ronjat, Etienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-Reference: 25064i