Book of the Month: Heroin Addiction Care and Control: The British System 1916 to 1984

Strang J. , Gossop M. The ‘British System’: visionary anticipation or masterly inactivity. In: Strang J. , Gossop M. , eds Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy: The British System. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994: 342–51

Stimson G.V. , Oppenheimer E. Heroin Addiction: Treatment and Control in Britain. London: Tavistock Publications, 1982

Mars S. Peer pressure and imposed consensus: the making of the 1984 ‘Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse’. In: Berridge V. , ed. Networks of Knowledge and Power: Science, Research and Policy since 1945. Amsterdam: Rodopi (in press)

Berridge V. The making of the Rolleston Report, 1908–1926. J Drug Issues 1980; 7: 28

Ministry of Health. Rolleston Report Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction. London: HMSO, 1926

Spear H.B. Heroin Addiction Care and Control: the British System, 1916–1974 (edited by Mott J. ). London: DrugScope, 2002. [ISBN 1-904-31904-1; £35]