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Where Does All the Snow Go? — The Prevalence and Pattern of Cocaine and Crack Use in Britain

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Cocaine or, rather, extracts of coca leaf, were widely available in the nineteenth century as an ingredient of many popular patent medicines and tonics. However, some concern over its addictive potential saw cocaine included in the 1908 Pharmacy Act. Later, via the Defence of the Realm Act, following the First World War scare that prostitutes were giving the drug to soldiers, cocaine passed into the Dangerous Drugs legislation of 1921 (Berridge and Edwards, 1987; see also Chapter 3).

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  1. Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough, UK

    Philip Bean (Reader in Criminology and Director) (Reader in Criminology and Director)

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Shapiro, H. (1993). Where Does All the Snow Go? — The Prevalence and Pattern of Cocaine and Crack Use in Britain. In: Bean, P. (eds) Cocaine and Crack. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22773-0_2

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