OPIUM and the PEOPLE
Opiate Use in Nineteenth- Century England
Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards

Contents
List of Plates
List of Text Figures 
Preface
Introduction

PART ONE: The Import and Cultivation of Opium at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
1.The Import Trade
2. The Cultivation of Opium in Britain 1790-1820

PART TWO: Opium Use in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
3. Open Sale and Popular Use
4. Opium in the Fens
5. Opiate Use in Literary and Middle-Class Society
6. Opium in Medical Practice

PART THREE : The Beginnings of Restriction c. 1830-60: The Public Health Case
7. 'A Peculiar Sopor' : Opium Poisoning and the Longevity Debate 
8. The Adulteration of Opium

PART FOUR: Class Tensions
9. Opium and the Workers: `Infant Doping' and `Luxurious Use'

PART FIVE: The Professionals and Opium c. 1860-1900: Professionalization and Availability
10. The 1868 Pharmacy Act
11. The Patent Medicine Question

PART SIX: The Professionals and Opium c. 1860-1900: The Use of Opium and Its Alkaloids
12. Morphine and Its Hypodermic Use 
13. The Ideology of Opium: Opium Eating as a Disease

PART SEVEN: The Eastern Dimension and British Opium Use c. 1860-1900
14. `Britain's Opium Harvest' : The Anti-Opium Movement
15. The Myth of the Opium Den in Late Victorian England

PART EIGHT: The End of the Century
16. The Other `Narcotics': Cannabis and Cocaine
17. Opium at the End of the Century

PART NINE: The Nineteenth Century in Relation to the Present
18. Changes of Scene

Tables
1: The Sources and Quantities of Englands' Opium Imports 1827-1900
2: Import and Home Consumption of Opium 1827- 60
  3: Narcotic Deaths 1863-1910
4: Narcotic Deaths by Age 1863-1908

Appendix: The Nature and Significance of Addiction

Bibliography