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  Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (Paperback) By (author) Marek Kohn

  

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  Short Description for Dope Girls"Dope Girls" is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress.
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  • Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
  • Published: 01 November 2003
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Cultural Studies | Drug & Substance Abuse: Social Aspects | Sociology | Crime & Criminology | Abnormal Psychology | British & Irish History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Social & Cultural History | Coping With Drug & Alcohol Abuse
  • ISBN 13: 9781862076181 ISBN 10: 1862076189
  • Sales rank: 293,748

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• A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. "Dope Girls" is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, in the last furious stages of World War I, of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. Around them in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. The drug problem was born, amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.