Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Opium in colonial Java (book)

James Rush, Opium in Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 (Equinox, 2010).

Obama's Afghan War Helps Create Many Opium Addicted Children

"A group of researchers hired by the U.S. Department of State found staggering levels of opium in Afghan children, some as young as 14 months old..."

"Among the factors leading to increased levels of drug use is the high unemployment rate throughout the country, the social upheaval provoked by this war and those that preceded it, as well as the return of refugees from Iran and Pakistan who became addicts while abroad."

Here is the link to the full article.

De Quincey: The English Opium-Eater (book)

Robert Morrison, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Robert De Quincey (Weidenfeld, 2009).

UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey Executive Summary 2009

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (and Terrorism) has just released this report containing much information in map and graphic form. It is a 9meg .pdf document downloadable from this website.

"Counterproductive" Afghan Drug Eradication by U.S. Ended

After many years, the unsuccessful program spending $18,000 per acre of U.S. taxpayer's money to eradicate poppies in Afghanistan has ended.  See the article here. 

Drug Use and Addiction in War

Tom Langdale wrote this short article, dated July 9, 2009, for High 5 Men's Magazine.

More opium conference papers

World History Association conference, Salem, Massachusetts, June 25-28, 2009.

A. Uner Turgay (McGill University), American Trade in Turkish Opium in the 19th Century

John Wills (Southern California University), The First Inhalers: A World-Historical Question

Paul Winther (Eastern Kentucky University), The Missionaries are Right, the Missionaries are Wrong: Misery and Opium in China, 1756-1917.

Sensational smoking (conference papers)

World History Association conference, Salem, Massachusetts, June 25-28, 2009.

session, Sensational Smoking: Opiates in the Global Context

Kristin Bayer (Marist College), Inside Out: Chinese Opium Smoking in the Chinese Diaspora

Deindre Murphy (Culinary Institute of America), Opium Dens, "Chinesers," and the Flight from the Industrial Clock time

Merchants of stupefaction (conference papers)

World History Association conference, Salem, Massachusetts, June 25-28, 2009.

session, Merchants of Stupefaction: The Global Trade in Opium

Frances Kartunnen (University of Texas-Austin), Alleged Opium Dependence on Nantucket Island in the 1770s

Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas-Austin), Opium and Other Psychoactive Substances in Big History

Marion Diamond (Queensland University), The Pill Pusher and the Drug Dealer: Contrasting Uses of Opium at the Turn of the 18th Century

Opium as a household remedy in India? (article)

Amar Farooqui, "Opium as a Household Remedy in Nineteenth-Century Western India?," Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison, eds., The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (London: Routledge, 2009): 229-237.