Opium's orphans: the 200-year history of the war on drugs

Part I: The rise of control: Forbidden cities ; Opium Wars ; Paradise lost? ; Shanghai and The Hague

Part II: Prohibition triumphant: Gangsters ; Drug prohibition at its zenith ; Overreach

Part III: The system challenged. Drug lords ; The consensus crumbles ; Opiate overdose ; Closing observations

Appendix I: Opium smoker numbers in nineteenth-century China

Appendix II: League-era opium regime statistics

Appendix III: Post-war drug seizures.