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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Introduction
PART I: Opium in Antiquity
Chapter 1: The Mysterious Origins of the Opium Poppy
Chapter 2: Papyruses and Poppies
Chapter 3: A Journey Around the Mediterranean
PART II: Opium and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Chapter 4: Classic Cures, Ancient Addictions
Chapter 5: A Little Light on the “Dark Ages”
Chapter 6: Opium’s Golden Age
Chapter 7: The Monarch of Medicine
PART III: Opium Goes Global
Chapter 8: Marco Polo and the Rise of Global Commerce
Chapter 9: “The Spice Trade Was in Reality the Drug Trade”
Chapter 10: The Two Most Addictive Drugs on Earth
Chapter 11: The Spice Race
Chapter 12: The Queen and Her Company
Chapter 13: A 5,000-Year Tradition of Medicine and Moderation
Chapter 14: Opening the China Market
Chapter 15: Great Britain “Invades” China
Chapter 16: Trading Opium in Canton: “The Complicated Machinery of Evasion”
PART IV: The Opium Wars
Chapter 17: Two Letters that Could Have Prevented a War
Chapter 18: Five Roads to War
Chapter 19: The First Drug War
PART V: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Chapter 20: America Enters the Opium Business
Chapter 21: Generosity and Greed
Chapter 22: Americans Try Growing Their Own
Chapter 23: Good Intentions, Tragic Results
Chapter 24: The Agony and the Ecstasy
PART VI: Laws and Disorder
Chapter 25: America’s First Failed Drug Laws
Chapter 26: Drug Hysteria and Race-Based Enforcement: The Harry Anslinger Story
Chapter 27: The War Nobody’s Ever Won
Chapter 28: The $1 Trillion Question: What Do We Do Now?
Afterword
Acknowledgments
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