White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916-1960

• Main Author: Hallam, Christopher (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Medicine-History.; History, Modern.; Civilization-History.; Medical policy.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Medicine.; Modern History.; Cultural History.; Health Policy.

This book traces the history of the London 'white drugs' (opiate and cocaine) subculture from the First World War to the end of the classic 'British System' of drug prescribing in the 1960s. It also examines the regulatory forces that tried to suppress non-medical drug use, in bo...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 From injudicious prescribing to the script doctor: transgressive addiction treatment in the interwar years
• 3 The Chelsea network and white drug use in the 1930s
• 4 Heroin and the West End life, 1935-1938
• 5 The regulation of opiates under the classic British System, 1920-1945
• 6 The Royal College of Physicians Committee on Drug Addiction, 1938-1947
• 7 Morphine and morale: the British System and the Second World War
• 8 Postwar Britain: subcultural transitions and transmissions
• 9 Conclusions.