Stories
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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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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive
Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.
Catalogue
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The people's pamphlet.
Davis, Perry, 1791-1862.Date: [1845]- Books
Every woman's pharmacy : a guide to safe drug use / William F. Rayburn, Frederick P. Zuspan, Jeanne Tashian Fitzgerald.
Rayburn, William F.Date: 1983
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Wahrhafte Beschreibung vom Benedictus-Oel oder Balsam.
Raha, Heinrich.Date: [between 1796 and 1804]
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Some plain directions for the use of our sal oleosum volatile.
Byfield, T. (Timothy), active 1700.Date: [1712?]
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Directions for combining and using A. Stewart's compound vegetable and other pills : accompanied with correct tables, suitable for nearly all of the most commom complaints, whether simple or compound : taken from every day's observations and practice, of the numerous patients which I have had the honor to prescribe for, with unbounded success, both in Surgical and Medical cases.
Stewart, Adam, 1775 or 1776-1842.Date: 1837