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and Lebanon
Mafia-style gangs
money laundering
newcomers in drugs trade
Rustomjee, Heerjeebhoy and Dadabhoy
Rynd, Dr Francis
Sacra Corona Unita (Mafia)
Saigon
Chinese in
fall of
government corruption
smuggling through bis
as Ho Chi Minh City
St George’s Hospital (London)
St Mary’s Hospital (London)
Sale of Poisons Bill (1857)
Salisbury, Lord
salt trade
Samarang (ship)
San Francisco
San Francisco Evening Post
San Juan
Sandinista regime
Santiago
Sao Hpalang, General
Saudi Arabia
sawbwas (Shan chiefs)
Schiaparelli Company
Schultz, Arthur ‘Dutch’
Scotland
Scott, Sir Walter
The Bride of Lammermoor
Scribonius Largus
Seattle
Sedgemoor
Seguin, Armand
‘Sur l’opium’ (paper)
Selkirk, Alexander
Senegal
Seppings, Sir Robert
Serapion
Serbia
Serenity Knolis clinic
Serturner, Friedrich Wilhelm Adam
Service de Documentation Exterieure et du Contre-Espionage (SDECE)
Severus, Lucius Septimus
sex
effect of drugs on
linked with drugs by press
orgasmic effect of opium
use of opium by concubines
Sex Pistols (pop group)
Seymour, Admiral
Shadwell, Thomas
Shaftesbury, Earl of
Shah of Iran
Shakarchi, Mohammed/Shakarchi Company
Shan states/tribe
Japanese and
Kuomingtang and
leadership of Khun Sa
local price of opium
opium smoking
smuggling
Shan National Army (SNA)
Shan National United Front (SNUF)
Shan State Army (SSA)
Shan State Restoration Council
Shan United Army (SUA)
Shanghai
addiction
foreign concessions
heroin production
International Opium Commission (1909)
smuggling
Shanghai Gazette
Shansi railway line
Shap Ng-tsai (pirate)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelvocke, George
Shenzhen
Shing May Wong (smuggler)
Shreveport (Louisiana)
Si-chuen see Szechuan province
Siam see Thailand
Siam, King of
Sicily/Sicilians
Sicilian Connection
Siegel, Benjamin ‘Bugs’
Sierra Madre mountains
Silcock, Sir Rutherford
silver bullion/coins
Silver Line shipping company
Silveryew, SS
Simpson, Dr
Sinclair, Henry
Singapore
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)
Sino-Japanese War (1937)
Siraj-ud-Dawlah
skin patches
slang terms explained
babania
baggies
Big Harry
bogue
boy
candy
candyman
chasing the dragon
chefs
Chinese needlework
cold turkey
connection
cooks/kitchens
cool
crystal
cutting
deal
deck
dives
downers
elephant
fixers
flower
Frisco speedballs
goof-balls
H
half-lo
hip
hophead
horse
hype
jacket
joints
junkie
key
kick
kicking the habit
kit
lamp habit
long draw
mainlining
monkey on your back
movers
mules
OD
piece
Pig Trade
pipies
playing the mouth-organ
Poison Trade
pusher
rush
schmecker
shanghaied
shit
shoot up
shooting gallery
six and four
skag
skin-popping
smack
smurfs
snorting
speedballs
squeeze
strung out
stuff
tea money
uppers
works
yen/have a yen for
SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council, Burma)
Slovak Republic
Smoking Opium Exclusion Act (US 1909)
smuggling
see also drugs (subheading global problem)
methods and hiding places
animals
babies and infants
cadavers
chemical trickery
clothing
containerised freight
diplomatic passports
ingenious hiding places
internal hiding
million dollar bathtub
scheduled air flights
vehicles
non-drugs smuggling
arms
gemstones
gold
money
routes
Balkan Route
French Connection
from Golden Crescent
from Golden Triangle
old silk and spice routes
US borders
Yakuza smugglers’ code
Smyrna
Society of Arts
Society for … the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards
Society for the Study of Inebriety
Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade in Britain
sodium carbonate
Sofia
‘Soldier’s Disease’
Sommus (god of sleep)
Son La province (Vietnam)
Soong, T.V.
Sopsaianna, Prince
South Africa
South America bis
South Korea
South-east Asia
Southey, Robert
Soviety Military Encyclopaedia
Spain/Spanish
Spalding
Spaulding, Captain
Special Investigations Unit (NYPD)
Spirito, Francois
spongia somnifera
Sri Lanka
Staines, Mr (opium grower)
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC, Burma)
Staunton, Sir George
stearic acid
Stockholm
Strachey, Sir John
Street’s Infant Quietness
strychnine
Stuttgart
Suez Canal
Stultzberger, Hartmann Henry All About Opium
Sumerians
Sun Qua, paintings by
Sun Yat-sen
suppositories
Surrealists
‘swallowers’
Swedish
Switzerland
Sydenham, Thomas
Sydney
Sylph (barque/clipper)
Sylph (brig)
/> Sylvius de la Boe
Sym, Mr (East India Company)
syndicates see cartels, Mafia, Triads, Yakuza
Syria
syringes see hypodermic syringes
Szechuan province
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tai-Land Revolutionary Army (TRA)
Taipei
Taiping Rebellion
Taiwan
as Formosa
as Taiwan
Tajikstan
Tan Son Nhut (airbase)
Tang Sang (policeman)
Tao Kwong, Emperor
Tartars
Tasmania
Taunggyi (town)
Taylor, Dr Isaac
Taylor, Revd J. Hudson
tea
Tehran
Teichman, Eric
telephones
temperance movement
Teng Ting-chen (Viceroy of Canton)
Teochiu people see Chiu Chau
terrorism
Lockerbie bombing
tetra-ethyl morphine (old name for heroin)
Thailand (Siam)
see also Golden Triangle, notably
addiction treatment
alleged government corruption
centre of opium trade
death penalty for drug offences
and international controls
and Shan states
syndicates
tourism
thebaine
Thebes
Theoderic of Cervia
Theophrastus
Therapeutic Papyrus of Thebes
theriaca
Thiboumery
Thieu, President Nguyen Van
Thistle (steamboat)
Thomas Coutts (ship)
Thomas, Olive
Thompson, Francis
Thomson, James
Tibet
Tidder, Thomas
Tientsin
Tilloy (chemist)
Times, The
Ting Ling (girl friend of Errol Flynn)
Tirana
tobacco
compared with opium smoking
in opiate ‘cocktails’
tolerance to drugs see under addiction
Tonkin
Toronto
Total Abstainers of Great Britain and Ireland
tourism
Towns, Charles B.
Townshend, Pete
Trafficante, Santo
Transport International Routier (TIR)
Trapani province
Treaty of Nanking
Treaty Ports
Treaty of Tientsin
Treaty of Versailles
Triads
tritopine
Truth about Indian Opium (Indian Govt. publication)
Tsai Chin (film star)
Tsung Cheng, Emperor
Tsung-li-Yamen (diplomat)
Tu Yueh-sheng (‘Big-eared Tu’)
Turkey
early use of poppies and opium
and French Connection
legal production
money laundering
opium trade in 19th-early 20th centuries
poppy cultivation banned and resumed (1970s)
present day smuggling passim
quality of Turkish opium
Turkish Cypriots
Turkmenistan
Tzu-hsi, Empress
U-Nu, Prime Minister
Ul-Haq, President Muhammad Zia
United Nations
and Burma
and Chechnya
Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Fund for Drug Abuse Control
International Drug Control Program
Khyber Pass refugee camp
and money laundering
‘unicorn’
United Wa State Army (UWSA)
Uruguay
USA
American Mafia see under Mafia
Chinese immigrants
history of drugs problem
heroin
morphine
opium trade in Far East
opium in US
syringes invented
internal war against drugs
anti-drugs organisations prior to DEA
clinics
computer use
DEA see own heading
education
international war against drugs
and money laundering
pharmaceutical industry
prisons
relations with other countries
Bulgaria
Burma
Canada
Central America
Colombia
Laos
Mexico
Middle East
Nicaragua
Puerto Rico
Thailand
‘uncertified’ countries
Vietnam see Vietnam War
and Triads
and Yakuza
US Bureau of Narcotics
US Coast Guard bis
US Department of Justice
US Pharmacopoeia (1851)
US Navy
USSR/CIS
see also Russia
Uttar Pradesh
Uzbekistan
Vancouver
Vang Pao, General
Vasco da Gama
Venezuela
Venice
Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
veronal (diethyl-malonyl-urea)
Veterinary and Gynaecological Papyri
Vicious, Sid
Victoria, Queen
Vien, Le Van ‘Bay’
Vienna Convention
Vientiane
Vietnam
addiction and smuggling
as French Indo-China
partition and after
tourism
Vietnam War
Virgil
Virginia City
Vlore
von Helmont (‘Dr Opiatus’)
Wa tribe
Walston, Catherine
Wan Jung, Empress (Elizabeth Pu Yi)
Wang Hi, Governor
Wang Lo-shan (pill-maker)
Ward, Arthur (Sax Rohmer)
Warner, Captain
Watts, George
Webster, Dr
Wedgwood, Thomas
Wei brothers
Wellington, Duke of
West Germany
Western Union
Whampoa
Whittlesea
Who, The (pop group)
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilson, Sir Henry
Winslow
withdrawal see under addiction
Wongwan, Narong
Wood, Dr Alexander
Woods, Colonel Arthur
Wordsworth, William
Lyrical Ballads
World Health Organisation
World War I
World War II
French influence in Laos
Japanese activities
smuggling interrupted by
US links with Mafia
Worldwide Web
Wren, Sir Christopher
Wright, C.R. Alder
Wright, Hamilton
writers and drugs
Wuchang Uprising
Wurzburg, Bishop of
xanthaline
Yakuza
Yangtze River
Yao tribe
Yew Peh-ch’uan (censor)
Yezd (Persia)
Young, George
Treatise on Opium
Young, John
Yu Te-ch’ang (pimp)
Yuan Shi-k’ai, President
Yugoslavia
Yung Cheng, Emperor
Yunnan province
addiction
poppy farming
smuggling
Zambia
Zappa, Frank
Zhou Enlai
Zia, President
zombies, addicts compared
to
Zurich
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Dreaming of Samarkand
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Nonfiction
Carpet Sahib—A Life of Jim Corbett
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An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.
OPIUM: A HISTORY. Copyright © 1996 by Martin Booth. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Booth, Martin.
Opium : a history / Martin Booth.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : Simon & Schuster Ltd., 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-312-20667-4 ISBN: 978-0-312-20667-3
1. Opium habit—History. 2. Opium trade—History. I. Title.
HV5816.B66 1998
615'.32335—dc21
98-14851
CIP
First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster Ltd.
eISBN 9781466853973
First eBook edition: September 2013