Opium Eating and the Working Class in the Nineteenth Century: The Public and Official Reaction

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The paper analyses the contemporary rumour and hysteria which overlay much discussion of working‐class opiate consumption. General middle‐class fears arising from social dislocation, the reaction to the temperance movement, the sensational presentation of opium eating by the Romantics, the Indo‐Chinese trade and the agitation against it; and the professional aspirations of pharmacists, all contributed to the irrationality with which much evidence was assessed.

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