Opium And The People - Virginia Berridge, Griffith Edwards Plays Almost like a graphic novel

Almost like a graphic novel

and this is a 'almost like brand new' edition

This is a beautiful book

and captures NYC in just about the exact middle of the 80s

and this bio

Opium And The People - Virginia Berridge, Griffith Edwards Plays Almost like a graphic novelAnother one from our 'books about drugs' collection. Victorian England, already fascinating, and then you add the drugs. Opium mainly, first used as a natural medicine, and then there's also cocaine, cannabis, and 'other drugs' viewed through the lens of Nineteenth Century England. It's amazing how many societal views and laws we have retained from Victorian times. This is an academic approach to the subject of addiction and society, and a very