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A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

Drink spiking and predatory drugging : a modern history / Pamela Donovan.

Drug misuse 2004 : reducing the local impact / Audit Commission.

Drug awareness : drugs and drink : awareness and action / by Gerald Milner.

Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history / Miriam Kingsberg.

Drugs : policy and politics / edited by Rhidian Hughes, Rachel Lart and Paul Higate.

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Drink spiking and predatory drugging : a modern history / Pamela Donovan.

Drug misuse 2004 : reducing the local impact / Audit Commission.

Drug awareness : drugs and drink : awareness and action / by Gerald Milner.

Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history / Miriam Kingsberg.

Drugs : policy and politics / edited by Rhidian Hughes, Rachel Lart and Paul Higate.