Opium (58 page)

Formosa
see
Taiwan

France/French

see also
French Connection

colonial rule

drugs production

heroin consumption

Francisi, Bonaventure ‘Rock'

Franco-Prussian War

Frankau, Lady Isabella

Frankfurt

Franklin, Benjamin

Freitag, Dr John

French Connection

French Connection, The
(film)

French Expeditionary Corps

Friend of China, The
(magazine)

Froggatt, Dr Clive

Fu Manchu stories/films

Fukien province

Fury,
HMS

Galen

Gambino, Giuseppe (Joe)

Gandhi, Mahatma

Ganges plain

gangsters

see also
Mafia, Triads, Yakuza

Garcia, Jerry

Garcias ab Horto

Garraway's Coffee House

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis

Gaza Strip

General Quiroga
(ship)

Geneva

George III

George IV

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Ghazipur

Government Opium and Alkaloid Factories

Giacomelli, Giorgio

Gibraltar

Gillman, Dr

Gladstone

Glasgow

Globus company

glycerides

gnoscopine

Goa

Godfather
films

Godfrey's Cordial

Golden Crescent

Golden Triangle

profits and money laundering

Goldsmith, Margaret

The Trail of Opium

Gordon, Waxey

Gotti, John

Grateful Dead (pop group)

Great Britain

14th century

Victorian times

anti-opium movement

attempts to grow British opium

colonial opium trade;
see also
Hong Kong

invention of hypodermic syringes

morphine manufacture and use

late 19th century to present

present day

heroin addiction

smuggling

source countries and prices

war against drugs

Greece/Greeks

ancient

modern

Green Gang

Greene, Graham

The Quiet American

Ways of Escape

Gregory, Sandra

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guangdong province

Guangod province

Guangzhou
see
Canton

Guatemala

Guerini, Antoine and Barthelemy

Guerrero

Guinness Book of Records

Gujarat state

Gulf War

Gutzlaff, Dr Karl

Hague Conference (1911)

Hainan Island

Haiphong

Haiti

Hali

Hall, Robert

Halliday, Billie

Hamburg Codex

Han Shao-ch'iung, Rear Admiral

Hankow

Hannibal

Hanoi

Hanover

Hansen, Juanita

Harlem

Harper's Magazine

Harrison, Francis Burton

Harrison Narcotic Act (US 1914)

Harvey, William

hashish

Hastings, Warren

Hau Fook Company

Hawaii

Hawkins, Dr

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin

Hell's Angels

Helmland Valley (Afghanistan)

hemp

henbane

hepatitis

herbal medicine

Hero of Alexandria

heroin

see also
addiction, smuggling and arms

change-over from opium use

compared with other drugs/alkaloids

discovery and early development

effects

manufacture

‘heroin mills'

substances used for cutting

medicinal use

methods of taking

in ‘cocktails'

elixir and pastilles

mixed with marijuana

mixed with tobacco

prices and profits

supposed cure for morphine addiction

types and trade names

Double UOGlobe

‘Mexican black tar'

‘Mexican brown' or ‘Bugger'

No 3 grade

No 4 grade

Heroin Baby Trial

Heroin Highway' (US Interstate 25)

Heroin
(pop song)

Heroin Signature Program (DEA)

Hezbollah

Hill, Dr John

Family Herbal

Hippocrates

hippy trail

Hiro Saga (court lady)

Hmong tribe
passim

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh City

see also
Saigon

Ho Mong (town)

Ho Su-cho (merchant)

Hobson, Richard P.

Hokkien Chinese

Holbeach

Hollywood
see
film industry

Homer

Honam

Honecker, Erich

Hong (Co-Hong) merchants

Hong Kong

ceded to Britain

colony from 1842–1945

during Second World War

since Second World War

addiction

heroin refining

money laundering

multinational corporations

police force

smuggling and Triad activities

Hong Kong Precious Stone Company

Honolulu

Hooghly River

Hooper's Anodyne

House of Commons Home Affairs Committee

Howard, Dr Harvey J.

Ten Weeks with Chinese Bandits

Howison, Dr

Howqua (merchant)

Hsien Feng, Emperor

Hu Tim-heng (businessman)

Hua To (surgeon)

Huang Yu-pu (official)

Hugo of Lucca

Human Wreckage
(film)

Hunan

Hungary

Hunter, Dr Charles

Hunter, Dr Henry Julian

Hunter, William C.

The ‘Fan Kwae' at Canton

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World

hydrocotarnine

hydromorphone

hyoscyamus

hypodermic syringes

Immobilon (M99)

Imprisonment

Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)

India

opium

traditional growing and use

types and quality

legal production

illicit production

history of opium trade

early centuries

colonial times

Gandhi's anti-opium campaign

India Act (UK 1833)

Indian Opium Agency

Indo-China

Indo-China War, First (1946–54)

infant mortality rates

Infant's Friend, The (syrup)

Inglewood
(ship)

Inglis, Brian

The Forbidden Game: A Social History of Drugs

inhalation

Institute de France

Inter-Departmental Commission on Drug Addiction (UK 1958)

Internal Revenue Service (US)

International Anti-Opium Association

International Convention (1931)

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)

Strategy Report (1994)

International Opium Commission (1909)

International Opium Conference (1924)

Internet

Interpol (International Police Commission)

IRA

Iran

countries supplied by

opium production – legal

opium production – illicit

and terrorism

Iraq

Ireland

Irish-American gangs

Isfahan

Islam
see
Muslims

isoquinoline alkaloids

Israelis

Istanbul

Italy/Italians

J. Collis Browne's Mixture

Jaafar, Khaled

Jamaicans

Jamesina
(brig)

Japan

drug use

drug smuggling to China

money laundering

in Second World War

and tobacco smoking

Yakuza

Jardine, William

Jardine Matheson & Co.

Java
bis

jazz clubs

Jeddah

Jehan, Jean

Jersey

Jewish dealers

Jibril, Ahmed

John Biggar
(ship)

John Calvin
(ship)

John of Gaddesden

Johnson, Dr Samuel

Johnstone, Revd James

Jones, Dr John

Mysteries of Opium Reveal'd

Jones, Thomas

Joplin, Janis

Jordan, Sir John

Journal der Pharmacie

Juanita Hansen Foundation

Ka Kwei Yei (KKY) militia

Kabay, Janos

Kabul

Kachin tribe

Kachin Independent Army (KIA)

Kachin Liberation Army (KLA)

Kai Tak airport

K'ang Hsi, Emperor

Karachi

Karen tribe

Karen National Union (KNU)

Karolinska Institute (Stockholm)

Kazakhstan

Keats, John

Kemp, E.G.

Kendall, General Raymond

Kenya

Kerouac, Jack

On the Road

Kerr, Dr Norman

KGB, former

Kho Phan Gan island

Khun Sa

Khyber pass

Kia King, Emperor

Kiangsu province

King, C.W.

Kingpin strategy (DEA)

Kingsley, Charles

Alton Locke

Kintex/KoKintex

Koechlin, Consul-general

Kokang district

Kolb, Dr Lawrence

Kong island

Koo, Mme Wellington

Koreans

Kowloon

Kriangsak, General

Kronprinzessin Cecilie
(ship)

Kung, Prince
bis

Kunming

Kuomintang (KMT)

passim

Kurdish areas

Kut Sang,
SS

Kwangtung province

Kweichow

Kyi, Aung San Suu

Kyrgyzstan

La Marr, Barbara

La Motte, Ellen

The Ethics of Opium

Ladies' Sanitary Association

Lafargue, Dr

Lagos

Lahore

Lahu tribe

Lahu National Liberation Army (LNLA)

Laloy, Louis

Le Livre de la Fumée

Lancet, The

Lang Son area

Lanrick
(clipper)

Lansky, Meyer

lanthopine

Lao Development Air Service

Laos

see also
Golden Triangle,
notably

Laotian Opium Administration

Laredo

Larne,
HMS (sloop)

Las Vegas

Lascars

Latin America/ns

laudanine

laudanosine

laudanum

compared with morphine

types

Battley's drops

Josephi Michaelis

Paracelsus's

Sydenham's

users, famous

La Verne, Dr Albert A.

League of Nations

Advisory Committee on … Opium

Lebanon
passim, bis

‘Lebanese Gold' (hashish)

Lee, Christopher

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee Sing Company

Leigh, John

Experimental inquiry into the properties of opium

Lester, Muriel

Levant Company

Levinstein, Dr Edward

Die Morphiumsucht (The Morbid Craving for Morphia)

levomethadyl acetate

Lewin, Professor Louis

Phantastica

Li Mah (gangster)

Li Ting

The Introduction to Medicine

Li Wen-huan, General

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lima

Lin Chien-pang (gangster)

Lin Mingxian (communist leader)

Lin Tse-hsu (commissioner)

Lin Wei-hsi (peasant)

Linnaeus

linolic acid

Lintin Island (Neilingding Dao)

Lintin
(ship)

Liquifruita Medica

Lisu tribe

Little, E.S.

Liverpool

Lo Hsing-han (warlord)

Lo Hsing-min (warlord)

Lockerbie bombing

‘Loimaw bandits'
see
Mong Tai Army

London

London Pharmacopoeia
(1788)

London, Professor Edythe

Ling Binh

Long Sutton

Long Tieng

Longfellow, Henry

lorchas
(sailing vessels)

Los Angeles

Louisa
(cutter)

Lowe Countries

Lowe, Dr Christopher

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

Luciano, Charles ‘Lucky' (Salvatore C. Luciana)

Ludlow, Fitzhugh

Lugard, Sir Frederick

Lui Lok, Sergeant

Luxembourg

Lysis

Lytton, Bulwer

M50/50 (Revivon)

M99 (Immobilon)

Ma Sik-chun (‘Golden Ma')

Ma Sik-yu (‘White Powder Ma')

Macartney, Lord

Macau

foundation of colony

in colonial times

money laundering

opium smoking

opium smuggling

McCarthy, Senator

McCoy, Alfred W.

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia

Macedonia

Macfarlan Smith & Co.

MacKay, Captain

Madagascar

Madhya Pradesh

Madras

Madrid

Mafia

American

associates of

money laundering by

smashing of

in Armenia

in Australia

in Balkans

in Russia and CIS

Italian

Ndrangheta

Sacra Corona Unita

Sicilian

Sicilian Connection

Magellan, Ferdinand

Magendie, François

Formulary for … Several New Remedies

Mahaban Mountains

Maimi

Malacca

malaria

Malaya/Malaysia

addiction cure

coolie immigrants in Malay peninsula

legislation

Malayan in De Quincey's dreams

revenue