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The Pursuit of Oblivion

by Richard Davenport-Hines

2002 576 pages eng

"Today the international trade in illicit drugs generates annually as much money as the oil industry, about $400 billion worldwide. In this history of drugs and their role in society, award-winning historian Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into the commodity of this hu…

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