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Pullinger, Jackie (with Quicke, Andrew) Chasing the Dragon – Hodder & Stoughton (London: 1980)
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Seagrave, Sterling Lords of the Rim – Bantam (London: 1995)
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Journalistic sources
Bangkok Post (Thailand); Eastern Express (Hong Kong); Hongkong Standard (Hong Kong); Independent on Sunday (London); Newsweek (USA); Observer (London); South China Morning Post (Hong Kong); Sunday Telegraph (London); Sunday Times (London); Time (USA); Washington Post (USA)
Index
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abcesses
acetic anhydride
aconite
Acosta, Dr
acupuncture
addiction
babies born with addiction or disposition to drugs
changing attitudes to
child addicts
cures and treatments
defined by World Health Organisation
famous addicts of Romantic period
famous addicts of 20th century
moderage drug use
morphinism
origins of heroin addiction
physiological mechanisms
social effects
symptoms and types
tolerance
withdrawal sickness
history
ancient Greece and Rome
Middle Ages
Great Britain (1920s)
Great Britain (1940s–60s)
Great Britain (1970s–90s)
USA (1920s–30s)
USA (1940s–70s)
USA (1980s–90s)
see also China, notably; Hong Kong, notably
present/recent addiction rates
Afghanistan
&nbs
p; China
France
Germany
Great Britain
Hong Kong
India
Iran
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Pakistan
Russia
Spain
Thailand
USA
Vietnam
Addiction Research Centre (Lexington)
Adriatic
Aesculapeius
Afghan (ship)
Afghanistan
see also Golden Crescent, notably
destinations of opium exports
and international controls
opium production
Africa
African–American street gangs
Agent Orange defoliant
Agrippina, Empress
AIDS
Air America/Civil Air Transport (CAT)
Air Laos Commerciale
‘Air Opium’ (American) see Air America
‘Air Opium’ (French)
Albania/ns (bis)
alcohol
alcoholism
in heroin refining
Prohibition
Islam forbids
Aleppo
Alexander, Joseph Grundy
Algren, Nelson
The Man With the Golden Arm
alkaloids
definition and formation
discovery
types
Albutt, Dr T. Clifford
Allen and Hanburys
Alston, Dr
American Civil War (bis)
American Express
American Medical Association
New and Non-Official Remedies (1906)
American War of Independence
Amoy
amphetamines
Amsterdam
anaesthetics
analgesics
Anderson, Winslow
anhalonium
Anslinger, Harry
Anti-Drug Abuse Act (US 1986)
Apalachin, ‘godfathers’ meeting
Apothecaries’ Company
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Arabs bis
Arderne, John
Argentina
Arif family
Armenia
arms dealing
‘army disease’
Arnold, Dr Thomas
Arnot, Mr, quoted on poppies
Arrow (sailing vessel)
‘Arrow War’
art/artists
Arunchal Pradesh
Asavahme, Vatana
aspirin (acetylsalcylic acid)
Assam
asset-sharing
Assyrians bis
Asurbanipal, King
Atkinson’s Infants’ Preservative
Aubagne
Auric, Georges
Australia/ns
Chinese in
money laundering legislation
smuggler caught
syndicates
US troops in
Austria
Austro-Hungarians
Averroes
Avicenna
Awaji Naru
Azerbaijan
babies and infants
born with addiction/disposition to drugs
opiate-based soothers
used in smuggling
baby milk companies
Bacon, Robert
Bactria
Bahamas
Baker, Ginger
Bakyan Mountains
bala goli (opium sweets)
Balkans
Balkan Route (bis)
Ball, John
Baltimore
Balzac, Honoré de
Comedie du Diable
Ban Hin Taek (Thailand)
Ban Houei Sai (Laos)
banditry
Bangkok
Bangladesh
Bank for Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
barbiturates
Barbosa, Duarte
Barton, Dr
Basque Separatists (ETA)
Batholow, Dr R.
Battle of Chuenpi
Battle of Fatshan Creek
Battle of Hahlam Bay
Battle of Kowloon
Battley’s Drops
Baudelaire, Charles
Bayer Company
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beddoes, Dr Thomas
Beijing (Peking)
Beijing conference (1995)
Beirut
Bekaa Valley
Belize
belladonna
Belon, Pierre
Benares
Bengal
Bentley, Professor
‘Bentley Compounds’
benzedrine
Berlin
Berlioz, Hector
Betsy (sloop)
Betts, Dr Thaddeus
Bias (Daya) bay
Binh Xuyen (syndicate)
Birdwood, Sir George
black people
Black Sea area
Blake, Michael
Blandford, Marquis of
blood poisoning
Boggs, Eli
Bogota
Bogue forts
Bolivia
Bomanjee Hormusjee (ship)
Bombay
bomoh (Muslim doctors)
Boswell, James
Life of Johnson
Boy George
Boyle, Robert
The Skeptical Chymist
Brade, Professor
Brain, Sir Russell/Brain Report
‘brat packers’
Brazil
Brent, Bishop Charles Henry
Brereton, W.H.
The Truth About Opium
Bridgman, Elijah
Bridport
Brinks-Mat bullion robbery
Bristol
Britannicus
British Medical Association
British Pharmacopoeia (19th century)
Brontë, Bramwell
‘Brown Mixture’, Dr Barton’s
Browne, Sir Thomas
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bruce, Dr Neil
Bruce, Lenny
Buchalter, Louis
Bucharest
Buddhist priests
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Secret Service (KDS)
buprenorphine
Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (US)
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (US)
Bureau of Prohibition (US)
Burma (Union of Myanmar)
See also Golden Triangle, notably
Burmans
early trade
and international controls
Master Plan for the Development of Border Areas and National Races
opium smoking technique
output
programmes of crop eradication
relations with Shan people see Shan
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Burroughs, William
The Naked Lunch
Burton, Robert
Anatomy of Melancholy
Bush, President
Byron, Lord
Cabot, John
cadavers used in smuggling
caffeine
Caine, Hall
Calcutta
Cali cartel
California
calomel
Calpol
Cambodia (Kampuchea)
Cambridge University Institute of Biotechnology
Canada
cannabis
Canton (Guangzhou)
17th–18th centuries
19th century
20th century
Canton Register (newspaper)
Carbon Dioxide Therapy (CDT)
Carbone, Paul Bonnaventure
Caribbean
Carleton, Billie
Caroline (ship)
cartels
casinos
Castellano,
Paul
castor oil
Castro, Fidel
Cavento, Joseph
Cayman Islands
‘centipedes’ (Chinese river craft)
Central America
Central Asian republics
Central Commission for the Suppression of Opium, Chinese
Central Intelligence Agency see CIA
Ceres (goddess of fertility)
Cesari, Joseph
Chad
champagne
Chan Chi-fu see Khun Sa
Chan Tse-chiu (‘Fast Eddie’)
Chang, Brilliant
Chang Chien (explorer)
Changi airport
Changteh (town)
Channel Tunnel
Channon, Olivia
charcoal, activated
Chart Thai Party
Chatterjee, Ramanamdra
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chechnya
Chefoo Convention
Chekiang province
chemical fingerprinting system
Chen k’ou (town)
Chen Ping-chun (spy)
Chennault, General Claire
Chiang Ching-kuo, President
Chiang Hsiao-wu (Alex Chiang)
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo
Chiang Mai (town)
Chicago
Ch’ien Lung, Emperor
Chien Sha Tsin (village)
Chile
China
Imperial China
early history
17th-early 19th centuries
First Opium War (1840–42)
Second Opium War (1856–60)
19th-early 20th centuries
traditional opium smoking
attempts to eradicate opium
(non-drugs) imports and exports listed
Chinese Republic
Criminal Code
and international controls
Sino-Japanese War (1937)
opium exports
production and use of heroin
Triads see own heading
Chinese expatriots
in America
in Asia
in Britain
in Burma
in Hong Kong
in Italy
in Shan states
in Thailand
world-wide networks
China Inland Mission
China Year Book quoted
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
Chinese Passengers Act (UK 1855)
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Chinese Repository, The (journal)
Chinchow bay
Chiu Chau Triads
chlorates
Chlorodyne
chloroform
cholera
Chowning, Mrs
Christison, Professor
Ch’u Hsien (town)
Chui A-pou (pirate)
Churchill, Lord Randolph
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
and Afghanistan
and French Connection
and Middle East
and Nicaragua
and Sicily
and Syria
and Yakuza
involvement in money laundering
cigarettes with heroin