The control of fuddle and flash a sociological history of the regulation of alcohol and opiates - Gerritsen, Jan-Willem (Brill, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Taxonomy of intoxicants -- The supply side: alcohol -- The supply side: opiates -- The colonial opium trade -- Excise taxes on alcohol: three countries -- Physicians as suppliers -- Industrialization and the war on alcohol -- Physicians as detoxifiers -- The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply -- Summary and conclusions