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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

‘brat 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

‘Brown 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)

17th–18th 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

‘centipedes' (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 (‘Fast 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

early history

17th-early 19th centuries

First Opium War (1840–42)

Second Opium War (1856–60)

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

‘Corset Gang'

Corsicans

allied with CIA

in France

and French Connection

and South-east Asia

Cottle, William

‘Count, 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)

‘Sel 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

‘dope 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

16th–19th centuries

present day

Eight Regulations

El Paso

Elausis

Elbasan province (Albana)

electro-stimulation

Elgin, Lord

Elliot, Captain Charles
passim

Ely

emaciation

enemas

Enfield

‘English opium'

Epidaurus

Equatorial Guinea

Erasistratus

Escobar, Pablo

Ethiopia

ethnic cleansing

etorphine

Europe, Eastern

European Union

Faithfull, Marianne

‘Farmers' 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)

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