Stories
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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.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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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.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
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Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer / edited by Joseph C. Winter.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Tobacco : its use and abuse / by Louis Silberberg.
Silberberg, Louis.Date: 1875- Books
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Tobacco : its use and abuse / by Louis Silberberg.
Silberberg, Louis.Date: 1863- Books
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Tobacco and its use in Asia / by Berthold Laufer.
Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934.Date: 1924- Books
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Of the use of tobacco tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Drams. Under the following Heads. I. Of Smoaking Tobacco, as commonly Practised. And of what Service Tobacco is in the Plague. II. Of Chewing Tobacco. III. Of Taking Tobacco in Snuff. IV. Of the Use of Tea, (green, and Bohea.) V. Of Drinking Coffee. And Throwing its Grounds. VI. Of Chocolate, and Vanillas. Vii. Of Brandy, Rum, Geneva, and other Drams. With Rules for Smoaking, Taking of Snuff, Drinking Tea, Coffee, &c. so as to prevent any ill Effects on the Nerves. This Book is Given Gratis, Up One pair of Stairs at the Sign of the Anodyne Necklace without Temple-Bar. At Mr Gregg's Bookseller next Northumberland-House Charing-Cross. And At Mrs Garway's, at the R. Exchange-Gate, Cornhil Side.
Date: 1722