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Postwar Britain: Subcultural Transitions and Transmissions,, cafes and bars of Soho, and drew on the practical drug know-how of the previous subcultural addicts. The building up of an established body of script doctors over some 25 years provided the drug availability necessary to equip the postwar proliferation of addiction.

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Concluding Themes,ess restrictive social and cultural context. There was a spread of broadly bohemian attitudes and practices through the host society, while the British System of prescribing was largely, if gradually, consigned to the past by the changes stemming from the second Brain Committee.

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Morphine and Morale: The British System and the Second World War, Ministry of Health, which supported a broad relaxation of controls. Meanwhile, the new wartime proliferation of licit opiates offered opportunities to the addict population, who were quick to infiltrate the civil defence system with a view to accessing supplies. In this period, changes in the addict subculture begin to be apparent.

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From Injudicious Prescribing to the Script Doctor: Transgressive Addiction Treatment in the Interwa of the British System and the work of commentators such as Judith Blackwell. This chapter maps the emergence and cultural geography of the script doctor. It focuses on a case study tracing the career of Dr Samuel Connor, a major script doctor figure whose prescribing haunted (and played a large par

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,Heroin and the West End Life, c.1935–c.1938,ubculture of London’s pleasure and entertainment district, this subculture was closer to the underworld of the night-time economy of the West End; drawn from a mixed class background, it was entrepreneurial and predominantly heterosexual. It was grounded in the nightclubs and bottle parties of Mayfa

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,The Regulation of Opiates Under the Classic British System, c.1920–c.1945,tivities of those groups and individuals using opiates and cocaine for ‘nontherapeutic’ purposes. These agencies included the Metropolitan Police, the Chemist Inspection Officers and the specialist drugs officers who were the predecessors of the drug squad formed after the Second World War and, fina

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,The Royal College of Physicians Committee on Drug Addiction, c.1938–c.1947,s (Home Office, Ministry of Health). These discontents led to the setting up of the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Drug Addiction in 1938 and are reflected in its workings. The composition of the Committee was strongly influenced by eugenics, and its establishment was initiated by eugenici