The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Social History of Drugs by Richard Davenport-Hines

The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Social History of Drugs

Richard Davenport-Hines

466 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered busine...

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