Opium's Orphans : The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Note on Weights and Currencies
Prologue
Part I: The Rise of Control
1. Forbidden Cities
2. Opium Wars
3. Paradise Lost?
4. Shanghai and the Hague
Part II: Prohibition Triumphant
5. Gangsters
6. Drug Prohibition at Its Zenith
7. Overreach
Part III: The System Challenged
8. Drug Lords
9. The Consensus Crumbles
10. Opiate Overdose
Closing Observations
Appendix I: Opium Smoker Numbers in Nineteenth-Century China
Appendix II: League-Era Opium Regime Statistics
Appendix III: Post-War Drug Seizures
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index.