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"Today the international trade in illicit drugs generates annually as much money as the oil industry, about $400 billion worldwide. In this history of drugs and their role in society, award-winning historian Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into the commodity of this huge illicit business.".
"Melding social, political, and cultural history, The Pursuit of Oblivion illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and it describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotional state. Davenport-Hines argues persuasively that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Drugs of abuse, Drug traffic, Drug control, Drug abuse, History, Narcotics, Drug addictionShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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The Pursuit of Oblivion
November 4, 2004, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
September 30, 2002, W. W. Norton & Company
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0393051897 9780393051896
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"IN THE 1670s an English merchant seaman called Thomas Bowrey (1649?-1713) was plying his trade along the coast of Bengal together with other English sailors."
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