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Article: Altered States: opium and tobacco compared *.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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SUCCESSIVE media commentators on British drug policy who have come across my research on nineteenth-century opiate use have found it fascinating that a society that now has quite restrictive policies toward drugs once had no policies at all. Drug use was endemic at all levels of society, and opium was as common as aspirin today. We do indeed now have "altered states" so far as drug control is concerned (Berridge, 1999). Recalling that time is interesting, but there are more important things to do with history than simply a "fancy that" response. In recent years, historians and political scientists have used various forms of study to examine the issues that drive policy ...
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