As entertaining as it is enlightening, "Dope Girls" vividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use?especially of morphine and cocaine?was transformed into a national menace. The cast of characters includes Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, whose highly publicized death from an overdose in 1918 fueled public anxiety; Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor; and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica?identi...
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