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- catalog abstract "Melding social, political, and cultural history, the auhor illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotionalemotuional state. He argues that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century.".
- catalog contributor b12619251.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "1. Early history -- 2. Opium during the enlightenment -- 3. The patent age of new inventions -- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- 5. Chemistry -- 6. Degeneration -- 7. The dawn of prohibition -- 8. Law-breaking -- 9. Trafficking -- 10. The age of anxiety -- 11. The first drugs czar -- 12. British drug scenes -- 13. Presidential drugs wars -- 14. So passé.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-547) and index.".
- catalog description "Melding social, political, and cultural history, the auhor illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotionalemotuional state. He argues that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century.".
- catalog extent "576 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0393051897".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "363.45/09 21".
- catalog subject "Drug abuse History.".
- catalog subject "Drug and Narcotic Control History.".
- catalog subject "Drug control History.".
- catalog subject "Drug traffic History.".
- catalog subject "Drugs of abuse History.".
- catalog subject "HV 5801 D247 2002".
- catalog subject "HV5801 .D25 2002".
- catalog subject "Narcotics History.".
- catalog subject "Street Drugs History.".
- catalog subject "Substance-Related Disorders History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Early history -- 2. Opium during the enlightenment -- 3. The patent age of new inventions -- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors -- 5. Chemistry -- 6. Degeneration -- 7. The dawn of prohibition -- 8. Law-breaking -- 9. Trafficking -- 10. The age of anxiety -- 11. The first drugs czar -- 12. British drug scenes -- 13. Presidential drugs wars -- 14. So passé.".
- catalog title "The pursuit of oblivion : a global history of narcotics / Richard Davenport-Hines.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".