Dope Girls

The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

By: Marek Kohn

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Paperback | 1 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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As entertaining as it is enlightening, Dope Girls vividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use—especially of morphine and cocaine—was transformed into a national menace. The cast of characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled public anxiety; Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor; and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica—identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. Britain was horrified and enthralled—the drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail. A cult classic in Britain, Dope Girls remains both timely and instructive.

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'A fascinating look at cocaine and opium use in Britain after the first world war' Sarah Waters, Sunday Times 'The best, most perceptive and most authoritative account of the British drug scene ever. This book is essential reading for doctors, legislators and law enforcers - indeed anyone who seeks to understand the impact that the illegal status of drugs has had on our society and culture' Will Self

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Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Nervous Disposition	p. 13
Snow on Their Boots	p. 23
The Daughters' Inheritance	p. 45
The Fascination of the Oriental	p. 57
Female Lead	p. 67
Unholy Rites	p. 85
Broken Butterfly	p. 105
Cocaine Girls in the West End	p. 120
Pan Fu Manchu	p. 150
From Aftermath to Aftermath	p. 176
Afterword	p. 182
Notes	p. 186
Index	p. 200
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