Stories
- Article
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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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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Mandsaur Opium Agency : No ... Dated ... Hundi ... Pass duty on sheets of opium ... Drawer ... Drawer at Bombay ... Hundi stamp paper Rs.
Mandsaur Opium Agency.Date: 1903- Ephemera
Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
Date: 1894- Books
The making of addiction : the 'use and abuse' of opium in nineteeth-century Britain / Louise Foxcroft.
Foxcroft, Louise, 1956-Date: 2007- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on opium embracing its history, chemical analysis and use and abuse as a medicine / / by William G. Smith.
Smith, William G., active 1832.Date: April 2, 1832- Ephemera
Christopher news notes no. 178.
Date: [1970?]