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Opium

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by Martin Booth


  Inglis, Brian The Opium War – Hodder & Stoughton (London: 1976)

  Kaplan, David E. & Dubro, Alec Yakuza – Futura (London: 1987)

  Kemp, E.G. Chinese Mettle – Hodder & Stoughton (London: 1921)

  Keswick, Maggie (ed) The Thistle and the Jade – Octopus Books (London: 1982)

  Kohn, Marek Narcomania: On Heroin – Faber & Faber (London: 1987)

  La Motte, Ellen Newbold The Ethics of Opium – Century (New York: 1924)

  Lamour, Catherine & Lamberti, Michael R. The Second Opium War – Allen Lane (London: 1974)

  Laurie, Peter Drugs – Penguin (London: 1967)

  Lewin, Louis Phantastica – Kegan Paul (London: 1931)

  Lewis, Eric Black Opium – Marshall (London: 1910)

  McCoy, Alfred W. Drug Traffic – Harper & Row (Sydney: 1980)

  McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin – Lawrence Hill Books (New York: 1991)

  Matthews, Peter (ed.) The Guinness Book of Records: 1994 – Guinness Publishing (Enfield, Middlesex: 1993)

  Mills, James The Underground Empire – Sidgwick & Jackson (London: 1987)

  Morton, James Gangland – Little, Brown (London: 1992)

  Musto, David S. The American Disease – Yale University Press (New Haven: 1973)

  O’Brien, Joseph F. & Kurins, Andris Boss of Bosses – Simon & Schuster (New York: 1991).

  Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies – Manchester University Press (Manchester: 1983)

  Posner, Gerald L. Warlords of Crime – Macdonald/Queen Anne Press (London: 1988)

  Pullinger, Jackie Crack in the Wall – Hodder & Stoughton (London: 1989)

  Pullinger, Jackie (with Quicke, Andrew) Chasing the Dragon – Hodder & Stoughton (London: 1980)

  Robinson, Jeffrey The Laundrymen – Simon & Schuster (London: 1994)

  Robson, Michael Opium: The Poisoned Poppy – Form Asia Books Ltd (Hong Kong: 1992)

  Rowntree, Joshua The Opium Habit in the East – P.S. King (London: 1895)

  Schenk, Gustav The Book of Poisons – Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London: 1956)

  Scott, J.M. The White Poppy – Heinemann (London: 1969)

  Seagrave, Sterling The Soong Dynasty – Sidgwick & Jackson (London: 1985)

  Seagrave, Sterling Lords of the Rim – Bantam (London: 1995)

  Spencer, C.P. & Navaratnam, V. Drug Abuse in East Asia – Oxford University Press (Kuala Lumpur: 1981)

  Steegmuller, Francis Cocteau – Macmillan (London: 1970)

  Sterling, Claire Crime Without Frontiers – Little Brown (London: 1994)

  Stockley, David Drug Warning – Optima (London: 1992)

  Sultzberger, Hartmann Henry All about Opium – Wertheimer, Lea & Co. (London: 1884)

  Taylor, Norman Plant Drugs that Changed the World – Allen & Unwin (London: 1967)

  Terry, Charles E. & Pellens, Mildred The Opium Problem – Patterson Smith (New Jersey: 1970)

  Thelwall, A.S. The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China – Allen (London: 1839)

  Waley, Arthur The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes – Allen and Unwin (London: 1958)

  Ward, Iain Sui Geng: The Hong Kong Marine Police 1841–1950 – Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong: 1991)

  Welsh, Frank A History of Hong Kong – HarperCollins (London: 1993)

  White, Barbara-Sue Turbans and Traders – Oxford University Press (Hong Kong: 1994)

  White, Edmund & Humphrey, John Pharmacopedia – Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd (London: 1909)

  (various) The War Against Opium International Anti-Opium Association (Peking) – Tsientsin Press (Tsientsin: 1922)

  (various) Findings and Recommendations of the Opium Investigation Commission appointed by the Philippine Commission: 1904

  (various) Hong Kong 1995 – The Government Printer/Hong Kong (Hong Kong: 1995)

  Booklets/pamphlets

  Briefing Book: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (September 1992)

  Colombian Opiate Assessment: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (June 1994)

  The Geopolitical Drug Dispatch: (no. 42, April 1995; no. 45, July 1995; no. 46, August 1995)

  Illicit Drug Trafficking and Use in the United States: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (September 1993)

  Money Laundering – Guidance Notes for Insurance Business: Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, Hong Kong Government (1995)

  National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee (NNICC) Report 1992: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (September 1993)

  National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee (NNICC) Report 1994: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (August 1995)

  Opiate Trafficking in India: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (February 1994)

  Opium Poppy Cultivation in Southeast Asia: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (September 1993)

  Pakistan fights Narcotics Menace: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Pakistan (1992)

  Source to the Street: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (September 1993)

  Statistics of drugs seizures and offenders dealt with, United Kingdom 1992: The Home Office Statistical Bulletin (Issue 30/9, October 1993)

  Worldwide Heroin Situation Report 1992: US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (March 1994)

  Papers

  Bruce, Neil C.; Caswell, Deborah A.; French, Christopher E.; Hailes, Anne M.; Long, Marianne T. & Willey, David L. ‘Towards Engineering Pathways for the Synthesis of Analgesics and Antitussives’ Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: 2 May 1994

  Bruce, Neil C.; Wilmot, Clare J.; Jordan, Keith N.; Stephens, Lauren D. Gray & Lowe, Christopher R. ‘Microbial degradation of the morphine alkaloids’ Journal of Biochemistry: volume 274, 1991

  Bryant, Robert J. ‘The manufacture of medicinal alkaloids from the opium poppy – a review of a traditional biotechnology’ Chemistry and Industry: 7 March 1988

  Lecky, Rhonda Anne ‘Biotechnological Evaluation of Papaver bracteatum Cell Cultures’: a thesis presented to the University of Dublin for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacognosy (November 1991)

  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

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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

 

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