Stories
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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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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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
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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
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Drug Discovery.
Li, Jie JackDate: 2013- Books
Drug Discovery Unit : turning the biological discoveries of today into the medicines of tomorrow.
Date: [2014]- Journals
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Drug discovery today. Technologies
Date: 2004-2021- Journals
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Drug discovery today. Therapeutic strategies
Date: ©2004-[2013]- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery Funding Committee meeting papers
Date: May 2006-October 2011Reference: WT/C/1/70Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive