Social poison : the culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821-1926 / Howard Padwa.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

x, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-224) and index.

Imagining the meditative nation : constructing the opium experience -- Anti-narcotic nationalism : the feared consequences of recreational opiate use -- The era of national narcotics control : the drug wars begin -- Control and its discontents : the plight of the addicted under opiate control.