White drug cultures and regulation in London, 1916-1960 / Christopher Hallam.
2018
HV5840.G7
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Title
White drug cultures and regulation in London, 1916-1960 / Christopher Hallam.
Author
Hallam, Christopher, author.
ISBN
9783319947709 (electronic book)
3319947702 (electronic book)
9783319947693
3319947699
3319947702 (electronic book)
9783319947693
3319947699
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-94770-9 doi
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HV5840.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.290941
Summary
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 both their medical and juridical forms. Drugs subcultures were previously thought to have begun as part of the post-war youth culture, but in fact they existed from at least the 1930s. In this book, two networks of drug users are explored, one emerging from the disaffected youth of the aristocracy, the other from the night-time economy of London's West End. Their drug use was caught up in a kind of dance whose steps represented cultural conflicts over identity and the modernism and Victorianism that coexisted in interwar Britain.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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