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The Junkies’ Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: Some Remembered Fragments

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The Second Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Drug Addiction, the Brain Report, was published at the end of Novermber 1965. Its curiously limited feel was partly due to its narrow terms of reference. While it was entitled Drug Addiction, its concern was almost exclusively with the regulations controlling prescribing of heroin and cocaine for addicts. It is true that it did make one passing reference to the wider social context in the memorable words of paragraph 40:

Witnesses have told us that there are numerous clubs, many in the West End of London, enjoying a vogue among young people who can find in them such diversions as modern music and all night dancing. In such places it is known that some young people have indulged in stimulant drugs of the amphetamine type.3

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  1. University of Nottingham, UK

    David K. Whynes (Senior Lecturer in Economic) (Senior Lecturer in Economic)

  2. University of Loughborough, UK

    Philip T. Bean (Reader in Criminology) (Reader in Criminology)

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Leech, K. (1991). The Junkies’ Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: Some Remembered Fragments. In: Whynes, D.K., Bean, P.T. (eds) Policing and Prescribing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11451-1_3

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