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Article: Britain, Drug Use in
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- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
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BRITAIN, DRUG USE IN
The legal use of what we now term
illicit drugs
was widespread in nineteenth-century Britain. Opiates in various forms were used by all levels of society, both for self-medication and for what we now call recreational use. The differentiation between medical and nonmedical usage was not clearly drawn then. Concepts such as addiction were not then widely accepted. The story of drug use in Britain since the late nineteenth century is the story of how and why drugs became defined as a social problem and which factors brought the establishment of certain forms of drug-control policy. These were, in fact, issues that often bore little relationship to the objective dangers ...
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