Video: Julia Buxton on the origins of US and UK involvement with the opium trade

Footnotes

1) Book: The political economy of narcotics: production, consumption and global markets [Julia Buxton Zed Books 2006]

The political economy of narcotics

2) Book: The Globalisation of Addiction [Bruce K Alexander 2008]

The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
OUP 2008

3) Paper: The history and development of the leading international drug control conventions

Webpage

4) Website: Drug Policy Alliance

DPA

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Julia Buxton on the origins of US and UK involvement with the opium trade