Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England

by Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards

Book Overview

At the beginning of the 19th century, opium was widely used as an everyday remedy for common ailments. By the 1920s, it was classified as a dangerous drug. In an examination of the social context of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300038046
• ISBN13: 9780300038040
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.