Essay Review - Terry M. Parssinen, Secret passions, secret remedies. Narcotic drugs in British society 1820–1930, Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues; Manchester University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiv, 243, illus., £21.00. - David Courtwright, Dark paradise: opiate addiction in America before 1940, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 270, £16.00. - H. Wayne Morgan, Drugs in America. A social history, 1800-1980, Syracuse University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 233, illus., $20.00.

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