Class of psychoactive drugs with numbing, sedative, and analgesic properties (distinct from the legal category)

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Captain Ducie approaches the dead body of M. Platzoff. Process print after R. Taylor after M. L. Gow.

Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Venetian drug bottle c.1700 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance / Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Limited.

A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

The seven sisters of sleep: popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world / [M.C. Cooke].

A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Die Sprache der Drogen-Szene : das Wörterbuch über 4.500 Begriffe von Amphetamine bis Zwischendealer / Gerold Harfst.

Kava kava (piper methysticum) : famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands / by E. F. Steinmetz.

The seven sisters of sleep / Mordecai C. Cooke.

Suicide and the sleep inducers / Roche Products Limited.

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Narcotics

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Images referencing Narcotics

Works from the collections

Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Die Sprache der Drogen-Szene : das Wörterbuch über 4.500 Begriffe von Amphetamine bis Zwischendealer / Gerold Harfst.

Kava kava (piper methysticum) : famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands / by E. F. Steinmetz.

The seven sisters of sleep / Mordecai C. Cooke.

Suicide and the sleep inducers / Roche Products Limited.

Narcotics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Narcotics

Works from the collections

Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Die Sprache der Drogen-Szene : das Wörterbuch über 4.500 Begriffe von Amphetamine bis Zwischendealer / Gerold Harfst.

Kava kava (piper methysticum) : famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands / by E. F. Steinmetz.

The seven sisters of sleep / Mordecai C. Cooke.

Suicide and the sleep inducers / Roche Products Limited.

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