Heroin first saw the light of day a century and a quarter ago in a laboratoryin Paddington Station London. Since then it has spread across most parts ofthe worl... » 

Heroin first saw the light of day a century and a quarter ago in a laboratoryin Paddington Station London. Since then it has spread across most parts ofthe world in fits and starts temporarily held up here or blocked there butpushing on with a persistence that has eventually overcome all obstacles.Despite the reach of heroin the information on which public debate aboutheroin is based is quite often wrong.Tom Carnwath and Ian Smith have written The Heroin Century to set the recordstraight. Their fascinating account of the development and use of thistwentiethcentury drug provides a wealth of factual information alongside someinformed insights into the future for heroin in the twentyfirst century.Topics include methods of heroin production and distribution types of heroinand methods of consumption government attempts to control the spread ofheroin patterns of heroin use heroin and its relationship to creativityphysiological and medicinal effects of heroin the relationshipbetween heroinand crime and treatments for heroin use. «