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<div align="center"><b><font color="#FFCC33" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF6600">Project
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history of drugs</font></b></div>
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<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Patterns
of drug use change over time. Different drugs come into and go out of
fashion and are used in different ways. Drug laws have also changed
over time. This project gets you to look at the history of drug use.
It is a difficult project to do unless you have access to books and/or
the internet and are prepared to do some serious research but it can
be very interesting. <br>
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First choose a particular topic to examine. Possible examples include:
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Opium
use in Britain in the nineteenth century. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
use of cannabis in Britain. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Changes
in drug laws in Britain. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
'Opium Wars' between Britain and China in the eighteenth century.
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
use of cannabis and LSD by 'hippies' in the 1960s. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
prohibition of alcohol in the USA in the 1920s. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Changes
in the use of tobacco in Britain. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
introduction of ecstasy use and raves in the late 1980s. </font></div>
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<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The following
books may be useful to look at: <br>
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<font color="#FF6600"><b><font color="#FF9900">V. Berridge </font></b></font><br>
Opium and the People - opiate use and drug control policy in nineteenth
and twentieth century England, London: Free Association Books 1999.<br>
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<font color="#FF9900"><b>M. Gossop </b></font><br>
Living with Drugs, Aldershot, 5th edition, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing,
2000. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#FF9900">B.
Inglis </font></b><br>
The Forbidden Game - a social history of drugs, London: Hodder and Stoughton
1975.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#FF9900">B.
Inglis </font></b><br>
The Opium War, London: Coronet (Hodder and Stoughton) 1979. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#FF9900">P.
Robson </font></b><br>
Forbidden Drugs - understanding drugs and why people take them, Oxford:
Oxford University Press 1994.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#FF9900">L.
Rose </font></b><br>
Drink and Drugs, London: Batsford 1984. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#FF9900">A.
Tyler</font></b><br>
Street Drugs, 3rd edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton 1995</font></p>
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To obtain these books talk to your school or college librarian or use
a local library. You might also talk to some history teachers and they
may be able to suggest other books and sources of information. <br>
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For some of the projects you may also be able to get information by
talking to adults. For example, you could discuss the use of cannabis
and LSD by 'hippies' in the 1960s, with your parents and other people
of their age. Your grandparents and people of their age may also be
able to tell you about drug use when they were young. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#FF6600"><b>Resources<br>
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</b> <font size="2" color="#000000">Here are a selection of websites
that may help with your project. Please remember that DrugScope/D-World
cannot be held responsible for the content of other sites</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/PDFS/historyofdrugs.pdf" target="_blank"><b>DrugScope's
History Of Drugs</b></a> Reference List (PDF 156Kb)</font></p>
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