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The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

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[PDF file]: […] and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed in the title of an early book he co-authored, An Introduction to Physical Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry.1 That was it: drugs, ECT, lobotomies, etc. Forget about talking it through on a couch. Chemistry, electricity and scalpels to the rescue. William Sargant and Eliot Slater. Edinburgh and London: […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. The War on Drugs was all about politics and by 1970 ‘key rock musicians were finding themselves arrested for drugs’. (pp. 204-205)3 […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] mark. 9 Thatcherism: The Final Solution . . . .’ 10 This is Hill’s entry: ‘Ingenious: individual choice must be paramount. With growing confidence she legalised hard drugs. Prices fell sharply. Legitimate outlets replaced bankrupt drug syndicates. Crime figures plunged. Crematorium shares surged. City populations thinned as the weak spirited succumbed. Unemployment vanished. Only […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

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[PDF file]: […] abuse – that of innocent victims whose pleas for help fell on deaf ears: “The girls at Duncroft had been sent there by the courts for prostitution, drugs and because they tried to kill themselves. Who would have believed us against Saint Jimmy?” ’ 11 A 1970s Duncroft resident interviewed by the Edinburgh research […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. The War on Drugs was all about politics and by 1970 ‘key rock musicians were finding themselves arrested for drugs’. (pp. 204-205)3 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A “senior police officer” was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: “It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]

The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution by Antonio Giustozzi

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[PDF file]: […] some US estimates claiming that ‘up to 80-85 per cent’ are drug users in some areas, and that ‘even senior officers are sometimes reported to be using drugs’. Why was the quality of recruits so poor? Only those who could find no other work even contemplated enlisting and, once they had enlisted, they often […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A “senior police officer” was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: “It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]

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