Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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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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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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Nicotine Addiction
Date: 1968-1989Reference: PP/WDP/F/6/2Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Books
Nicotine addiction in Britain : a report of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians.
Royal College of Physicians of London. Tobacco Advisory Group.Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Harm reduction in nicotine addiction : helping people who can't quit : a report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians, October 2007.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Narcotics : Nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, peyote, morphine, ether + appendices, including selections from Farewell to autumn / Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated from the Polish by Soren A. Gauger.
Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy, 1885-1939.Date: 2018- Books
Understanding nicotine and tobacco addiction / [editors, Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode].
Date: 2006