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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Drug sharing in desperate times
When Nicole was threatened with deportation, her mental health deteriorated. Now without a job, a passport or a doctor, she depends on others to send her their leftover anxiety drugs.
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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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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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- Archives and manuscripts
"The Effect of some Analgesic drugs used in Childbirth on the newborn"
Date: c.1954-1957Reference: SA/NBT/H.5/4/5Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Atropine - paper "A study of the effect of drugs on air-way obstruction with particular reference to isoprenaline sulphate and atropine methonitrate": correspondence re publication in Thorax
Date: 1963-1964Reference: PP/RCA/C.2/6/3/2Part of: Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan FRCP (1922-1987)- Archives and manuscripts
Andrew Parrott, Department of Psychology, Swansea University: research on "Ecstasy"
Date: 2008Reference: PP/IDD/A/10/63Part of: Iddon, Brian- Archives and manuscripts
Products (A - R)
Date: c.1881-c.1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/P03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd