Item IOP/PP3/5/21 - Research materials, 1958-1968, relating to drug use and drug addiction.

Research materials relating to drug use and drug addiction, including report, 'Ataractic and hallucinogenic drugs in psychiatry', World Health Organisation 1958; eleventh and thirteenth report of the World Health Organisation committee on addiction-producing drugs 1961 and 1964; article, 'The problem of barbiturates in the United States of America', by Joel Fort, Bulletin on Narcotics, 1964; article, 'The Government's stake in psychiatric drug research' by Stanley F Yolles, Psychiatric Drugs, 1966; article, 'Cannabis - a toxic and dangerous substance - a study of eighty takers', by P A L Chapple, British Journal of Addiction, 1966; pamphlet produced by SOMA, foundation for research on psychotropic drugs, 1967; pamphlet, 'What we can do about drug abuse', by Jules Saltman, United States Public Affairs Committee, 1967; pamphlet, 'Drug addiction', Office of Health Economics, Oct 1967; report, 'Research in psychopharmacology', World Health Organisation Report, 1967; magazine, 'World Health: the magazine of the World Health Organisation', Jul 1967; pamphlet, 'Drug dependence', by Dr. Antony J Wood, Department of Public Health, Bristol, 1967; pamphlet, 'Arrest: a guide to the citizen's rights', The National Council for Civil Liberties; pamphlet, 'About drugs', the Health Department, drugs advisory leaflet 1968; article, 'Drug dependence - a socio- pharmacological assessment', by Prof W D M Paton, Advancement of Science, Dec 1968; article, 'Rehabilitation of the addict', by M M Glatt, _British Journal of Addiction,_1969; booklet, 'Narcotic Drug Addiction', US Department of Health, Education and Welfare; pamphlet, 'The drug subculture: a Christian analysis', by Kenneth Leech, The Church of England Council for Social Aid, Mar 1969; report, 'Acute Adverse Reactions to LSD in Clinical and Experimental Use in the United Kingdom', by Dr. Nicolas Malleson, for consultation by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence Amphetamines Sub Committee, Jun 1969; copy of report of the Medical Research Council Working Party on the Epidemology of Drug Dependence, 1970; copy of letter from Dr David Hawks of the Addiction Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, to Dr A Sippert of Department of Health and Social Security, about details of projects being undertaken by the Addiction Research Unit relating to 'soft' drug use, 3 Aug 1970; letter from G E Godber, Ministry of Health, to Aubrey Lewis, thanking Lewis for his memoranda for the Standing Advisory Committee on Drug Dependency, 26 Nov 1968.