Authors: Martin Booth
Betsy
(sloop)
Betts, Dr Thaddeus
Bias (Daya) bay
Binh Xuyen (syndicate)
Birdwood, Sir George
black people
Black Sea area
Blake, Michael
Blandford, Marquis of
blood poisoning
Boggs, Eli
Bogota
Bogue forts
Bolivia
Bomanjee Hormusjee
(ship)
Bombay
bomoh
(Muslim doctors)
Boswell, James
Life of Johnson
Boy George
Boyle, Robert
The Skeptical Chymist
Brade, Professor
Brain, Sir Russell/Brain Report
âbrat packers'
Brazil
Brent, Bishop Charles Henry
Brereton, W.H.
The Truth About Opium
Bridgman, Elijah
Bridport
Brinks-Mat bullion robbery
Bristol
Britannicus
British Medical Association
British Pharmacopoeia
(19th century)
Brontë, Bramwell
âBrown Mixture', Dr Barton's
Browne, Sir Thomas
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bruce, Dr Neil
Bruce, Lenny
Buchalter, Louis
Bucharest
Buddhist priests
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Secret Service (KDS)
buprenorphine
Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (US)
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (US)
Bureau of Prohibition (US)
Burma (Union of Myanmar)
See also
Golden Triangle,
notably
Burmans
early trade
and international controls
Master Plan for the Development of Border Areas and National Races
opium smoking technique
output
programmes of crop eradication
relations with Shan people
see
Shan
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Burroughs, William
The Naked Lunch
Burton, Robert
Anatomy of Melancholy
Bush, President
Byron, Lord
Cabot, John
cadavers used in smuggling
caffeine
Caine, Hall
Calcutta
Cali cartel
California
calomel
Calpol
Cambodia (Kampuchea)
Cambridge University Institute of Biotechnology
Canada
cannabis
Canton (Guangzhou)
17thâ18th centuries
19th century
20th century
Canton Register
(newspaper)
Carbon Dioxide Therapy (CDT)
Carbone, Paul Bonnaventure
Caribbean
Carleton, Billie
Caroline
(ship)
cartels
casinos
Castellano, Paul
castor oil
Castro, Fidel
Cavento, Joseph
Cayman Islands
âcentipedes' (Chinese river craft)
Central America
Central Asian republics
Central Commission for the Suppression of Opium, Chinese
Central Intelligence Agency
see
CIA
Ceres (goddess of fertility)
Cesari, Joseph
Chad
champagne
Chan Chi-fu
see
Khun Sa
Chan Tse-chiu (âFast Eddie')
Chang, Brilliant
Chang Chien (explorer)
Changi airport
Changteh (town)
Channel Tunnel
Channon, Olivia
charcoal, activated
Chart Thai Party
Chatterjee, Ramanamdra
Chaucer,
Geoffrey
Chechnya
Chefoo Convention
Chekiang province
chemical fingerprinting system
Chen k'ou (town)
Chen Ping-chun (spy)
Chennault, General Claire
Chiang Ching-kuo, President
Chiang Hsiao-wu (Alex Chiang)
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo
Chiang Mai (town)
Chicago
Ch'ien Lung, Emperor
Chien Sha Tsin (village)
Chile
China
Imperial China
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17th-early 19th centuries
First Opium War (1840â42)
Second Opium War (1856â60)
19th-early 20th centuries
traditional opium smoking
attempts to eradicate opium
(non-drugs) imports and exports listed
Chinese Republic
Criminal Code
and international controls
Sino-Japanese War (1937)
opium exports
production and use of heroin
Triads
see
own heading
Chinese expatriots
in America
in Asia
in Britain
in Burma
in Hong Kong
in Italy
in Shan states
in Thailand
world-wide networks
China Inland Mission
China Year Book
quoted
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
Chinese Passengers Act (UK 1855)
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Chinese Repository, The
(journal)
Chinchow bay
Chiu Chau Triads
chlorates
Chlorodyne
chloroform
cholera
Chowning, Mrs
Christison, Professor
Ch'u Hsien (town)
Chui A-pou (pirate)
Churchill, Lord Randolph
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
and Afghanistan
and French Connection
and Middle East
and Nicaragua
and Sicily
and Syria
and Yakuza
involvement in money laundering
cigarettes with heroin
CIS
see
USSR
Clapton, Eric
Clarke, Dr Abel
Clendenyn (first white opium smoker)
Clifton, Captain William
clinics
Clinton, President
clippers
Clive, Baron Robert, of India
Co-Hong merchants
see
Hong merchants
Cobain, Kurt
Coca-Cola
coca-leaf chewing
cocaine
in Coca-Cola
Cuba's involvement
legislation
smuggling
used to promote heroin sales
used with heroin
Cocteau, Jean
codamine
codeine
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Kubla Khan
Lyrical Ballads
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collins, Wilkie
Armadale
No Name
The Moonstone
Collins, William
Collis, Maurice
Cologne
Colombia/ns
cartels
and Cuba
in Europe
heroin production
and money laundering
quality of heroin
US aid to
Colombian National Liberation Army
Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces
Columbine
HMS
Columbus, Christopher
Committee on Drug Addiction (US)
Commodus
Commonplace Book of an Apothecary of Great Dunmow
communications
Communism
Burma
China
France
US fear of
computers used to fight smuggling
concubines
condoms used in smuggling
Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs (Geneva 1931)
Conference Shanghai (1909)
Conference for the Suppression of the Illicit traffic in Dangerous Drugs (1936)
Constantinople
constipation
Continental Air Service (CAS)
Continental King Lung Commodities Group
Controlled Substance Act (US)
Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1968)
Convention of Chuenpi
Convention of Peking
Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)
coolies
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cornelius Nepos
Cornwallis,
HMS
âCorset Gang'
Corsicans
allied with CIA
in France
and French Connection
and South-east Asia
Cottle, William
âCount, the' (Hollywood)
couriers
Coventry
Cowley, Dr John
Crabbe, George
Peter Grimes
crack cocaine
Cream (pop group)
Crimean, SS
Crimean War
Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act (UK 1991)
crop-substitution
see under
poppies
Crow, Mr (Hong Kong)
Crowley, Aleister
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Crumpe, Dr Samuel
Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium
Crusaders
cryptographical inventions
cryptopine
Cuba
Culiacan
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Curlew,
HMS
Cutty Sark
(clipper)
cyclazocine
Cyprus
Czech republic
Daily News
Danang (port)
Danes
Dangerous Drugs Act (UK 1920)
Dangerous Drugs Act (UK 1967)
database of global opium production (1924)
Davis, Sir John
Davy, Sir Humphrey
Day, Horace
The Opium Habit
De Quincey, Thomas
bis
Confessions of an English Opium-eater
quoted
quoted on Coleridge
bis
de Ropp, Dr Robert S.
Drugs and the Mind
quoted
DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
and Bekaa Valley
and cocaine
Demand Reduction Program
Heroin Signature Program
and Golden Triangle
Kingpin strategy
and Mafia
pricing structures published by
and Vietnam
death penalty for drugs offences
Burma
China
Iran
Mong Tai Army
Saudi Arabia
Thailand
USA
Vietnam
Declaration of Basle
Defence of the Realm Act (DORA)
Demand Reduction Program (DEA)
Demeter, cult of
Deng Xiaoping
Dent & Co.
Dent, John
dependence
see
addiction
Depository Institution Money Laundering Amendment Act (US 1990)
Dericourt, Henri
Derosne (pharmacist)
âSel narcotique de Derosne'
detoxification
Detzer, Eric
Monkey on my Back
dextropropoxyphene
diacetylmorphine
see
heroin
Diagoras of Melos
diarrhoea
diascordium
Dick, Philip K.
Dickens, Charles
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dictionary of National Biography,
British
Dionysius of Syracuse
Dioscorides
Disraeli, Benjamin
Sybil
Dixon, W.E.
Dobell, Captain
doctors
British medical profession
bis
âdope doctors'
dogs
addicted to opium
sniffer
Dole, Vincent
dolophine hydrochloride
Dominican Re/files/08/59/41/f085941/public/Dominicans
Dover
Dover, Thomas
Ancient Physician's Legacy to his Country
Dover's Powder
Downing, Dr C. Toogood
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Dreser, Heinrich
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (US 1970)
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
Drug Enforcement Administration
see
DEA
drug barons
see also
cartels, Mafia, Triads, Yakuza
drugs
see also
cocaine, hashish, heroin, marijuana, morphine, opium
classification of
global problem
cultural aspects
international drugs control
legalisation experiments
use of computers
use of military technology
world annual turnover
Drugs Supervisory Body (UN)
Drugs Trafficking Offences Act (UK 1986)
Dryden, John
MacFlecknoe
Dubai
Dundee
Durres
Dutch
see
Netherlands/Dutch
Dutch Antilles
dwale
(potions)
dysentery
Dyson, Edward
story of Mr & Mrs Sin Fat
East Germany
East India Company
East Indiamen (ships)
East Indies
Ebers, Georg Moritz
Ecstasy
Ecuador
Edinburgh
Egypt/Egyptian opium
ancient
16thâ19th centuries
present day
Eight Regulations
El Paso
Elausis
Elbasan province (Albana)
electro-stimulation
Elgin, Lord
Elliot, Captain Charles
passim
Ely
emaciation
enemas
Enfield
âEnglish opium'
Epidaurus
Equatorial Guinea
Erasistratus
Escobar, Pablo
Ethiopia
ethnic cleansing
etorphine
Europe, Eastern
European Union
Faithfull, Marianne
âFarmers' Bank (China)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)
passim
Federal Narcotics Control Board (US)
Fen country
Feng Yu Hsiang, General
Ferguson (instrument maker)
film industry
financy
see
prices and profits
Fiori, Etienne
Five Dragons Corporation
Florida
Flynn, Errol
My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Foochow (Fuzhou)
Forbes (soldier of fortune)