Illicit drugs and the rise of epidemiology during the 1960s.
Epidemiology has been crucial to the understanding of both tobacco smoking and illicit drug taking as public health issues in Britain since the 1960s. There were, however, significant differences in the way in which epidemiology was used between the two psychoactive substances.
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Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. alex.mold@lshtm.ac.uk
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