Opium (60 page)

use of opium by concubines

Sex Pistols (pop group)

Seymour, Admiral

Shadwell, Thomas

Shaftesbury, Earl of

Shah of Iran

Shakarchi, Mohammed/Shakarchi Company

Shan states/tribe

Japanese and

Kuomingtang and

leadership of Khun Sa

local price of opium

opium smoking

smuggling

Shan National Army (SNA)

Shan National United Front (SNUF)

Shan State Army (SSA)

Shan State Restoration Council

Shan United Army (SUA)

Shanghai

addiction

foreign concessions

heroin production

International Opium Commission (1909)

smuggling

Shanghai Gazette

Shansi railway line

Shap Ng-tsai (pirate)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shelvocke, George

Shenzhen

Shing May Wong (smuggler)

Shreveport (Louisiana)

Si-chuen
see
Szechuan province

Siam
see
Thailand

Siam, King of

Sicily/Sicilians

Sicilian Connection

Siegel, Benjamin ‘Bugs'

Sierra Madre mountains

Silcock, Sir Rutherford

silver bullion/coins

Silver Line shipping company

Silveryew,
SS

Simpson, Dr

Sinclair, Henry

Singapore

Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)

Sino-Japanese War (1937)

Siraj-ud-Dawlah

skin patches

slang terms explained

babania

baggies

Big Harry

bogue

boy

candy

candyman

chasing the dragon

chefs

Chinese needlework

cold turkey

connection

cooks/kitchens

cool

crystal

cutting

deal

deck

dives

downers

elephant

fixers

flower

Frisco speedballs

goof-balls

H

half-lo

hip

hophead

horse

hype

jacket

joints

junkie

key

kick

kicking the habit

kit

lamp habit

long draw

mainlining

monkey on your back

movers

mules

OD

piece

Pig Trade

pipies

playing the mouth-organ

Poison Trade

pusher

rush

schmecker

shanghaied

shit

shoot up

shooting gallery

six and four

skag

skin-popping

smack

smurfs

snorting

speedballs

squeeze

strung out

stuff

tea money

uppers

works

yen/have a yen for

SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council, Burma)

Slovak Republic

Smoking Opium Exclusion Act (US 1909)

smuggling

see also
drugs (
subheading
global problem)

methods and hiding places

animals

babies and infants

cadavers

chemical trickery

clothing

containerised freight

diplomatic passports

ingenious hiding places

internal hiding

million dollar bathtub

scheduled air flights

vehicles

non-drugs smuggling

arms

gemstones

gold

money

routes

Balkan Route

French Connection

from Golden Crescent

from Golden Triangle

old silk and spice routes

US borders

Yakuza smugglers' code

Smyrna

Society of Arts

Society for … the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards

Society for the Study of Inebriety

Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade in Britain

sodium carbonate

Sofia

‘Soldier's Disease'

Sommus (god of sleep)

Son La province (Vietnam)

Soong, T.V.

Sopsaianna, Prince

South Africa

South America
bis

South Korea

South-east Asia

Southey, Robert

Soviety Military Encyclopaedia

Spain/Spanish

Spalding

Spaulding, Captain

Special Investigations Unit (NYPD)

Spirito, Francois

spongia somnifera

Sri Lanka

Staines, Mr (opium grower)

State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC, Burma)

Staunton, Sir George

stearic acid

Stockholm

Strachey, Sir John

Street's Infant Quietness

strychnine

Stuttgart

Suez Canal

Stultzberger, Hartmann Henry
All About Opium

Sumerians

Sun Qua, paintings by

Sun Yat-sen

suppositories

Surrealists

‘swallowers'

Swedish

Switzerland

Sydenham, Thomas

Sydney

Sylph
(barque/clipper)

Sylph
(brig)

Sylvius de la Boe

Sym, Mr (East India Company)

syndicates
see
cartels, Mafia, Triads, Yakuza

Syria

syringes
see
hypodermic syringes

Szechuan province

Tagore, Rabindranath

Tai-Land Revolutionary Army (TRA)

Taipei

Taiping Rebellion

Taiwan

as Formosa

as Taiwan

Tajikstan

Tan Son Nhut (airbase)

Tang Sang (policeman)

Tao Kwong, Emperor

Tartars

Tasmania

Taunggyi (town)

Taylor, Dr Isaac

Taylor, Revd J. Hudson

tea

Tehran

Teichman, Eric

telephones

temperance movement

Teng Ting-chen (Viceroy of Canton)

Teochiu people
see
Chiu Chau

terrorism

Lockerbie bombing

tetra-ethyl morphine (old name for heroin)

Thailand (Siam)

see also
Golden Triangle,
notably

addiction treatment

alleged government corruption

centre of opium trade

death penalty for drug offences

and international controls

and Shan states

syndicates

tourism

thebaine

Thebes

Theoderic of Cervia

Theophrastus

Therapeutic Papyrus of Thebes

theriaca

Thiboumery

Thieu, President Nguyen Van

Thistle
(steamboat)

Thomas Coutts
(ship)

Thomas, Olive

Thompson, Francis

Thomson, James

Tibet

Tidder, Thomas

Tientsin

Tilloy (chemist)

Times, The

Ting Ling (girl friend of Errol Flynn)

Tirana

tobacco

compared with opium smoking

in opiate ‘cocktails'

tolerance to drugs
see under
addiction

Tonkin

Toronto

Total Abstainers of Great Britain and Ireland

tourism

Towns, Charles B.

Townshend, Pete

Trafficante, Santo

Transport International Routier (TIR)

Trapani province

Treaty of Nanking

Treaty Ports

Treaty of Tientsin

Treaty of Versailles

Triads

tritopine

Truth about Indian Opium
(Indian Govt. publication)

Tsai Chin (film star)

Tsung Cheng, Emperor

Tsung-li-Yamen (diplomat)

Tu Yueh-sheng (‘Big-eared Tu')

Turkey

early use of poppies and opium

and French Connection

legal production

money laundering

opium trade in 19th-early 20th centuries

poppy cultivation banned and resumed (1970s)

present day smuggling
passim

quality of Turkish opium

Turkish Cypriots

Turkmenistan

Tzu-hsi, Empress

U-Nu, Prime Minister

Ul-Haq, President Muhammad Zia

United Nations

and Burma

and Chechnya

Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Fund for Drug Abuse Control

International Drug Control Program

Khyber Pass refugee camp

and money laundering

‘unicorn'

United Wa State Army (UWSA)

Uruguay

USA

American Mafia
see under
Mafia

Chinese immigrants

history of drugs problem

heroin

morphine

opium trade in Far East

opium in US

syringes invented

internal war against drugs

anti-drugs organisations prior to DEA

clinics

computer use

DEA
see
own heading

education

international war against drugs

and money laundering

pharmaceutical industry

prisons

relations with other countries

Bulgaria

Burma

Canada

Central America

Colombia

Laos

Mexico

Middle East

Nicaragua

Puerto Rico

Thailand

‘uncertified' countries

Vietnam
see
Vietnam War

and Triads

and Yakuza

US Bureau of Narcotics

US Coast Guard
bis

US Department of Justice

US Pharmacopoeia
(1851)

US Navy

USSR/CIS

see also
Russia

Uttar Pradesh

Uzbekistan

Vancouver

Vang Pao, General

Vasco da Gama

Venezuela

Venice

Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie

veronal (diethyl-malonyl-urea)

Veterinary and Gynaecological Papyri

Vicious, Sid

Victoria, Queen

Vien, Le Van ‘Bay'

Vienna Convention

Vientiane

Vietnam

addiction and smuggling

as French Indo-China

partition and after

tourism

Vietnam War

Virgil

Virginia City

Vlore

von Helmont (‘Dr Opiatus')

Wa tribe

Walston, Catherine

Wan Jung, Empress (Elizabeth Pu Yi)

Wang Hi, Governor

Wang Lo-shan (pill-maker)

Ward, Arthur (Sax Rohmer)

Warner, Captain

Watts, George

Webster, Dr

Wedgwood, Thomas

Wei brothers

Wellington, Duke of

West Germany

Western Union

Whampoa

Whittlesea

Who, The (pop group)

Wilberforce, William

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilson, Sir Henry

Winslow

withdrawal
see under
addiction

Wongwan, Narong

Wood, Dr Alexander

Woods, Colonel Arthur

Wordsworth, William

Lyrical Ballads

World Health Organisation

World War I

World War II

French influence in Laos

Japanese activities

smuggling interrupted by

US links with Mafia

Worldwide Web

Wren, Sir Christopher

Wright, C.R. Alder

Wright, Hamilton

writers and drugs

Wuchang Uprising

Wurzburg, Bishop of

xanthaline

Yakuza

Yangtze River

Yao tribe

Yew Peh-ch'uan (censor)

Yezd (Persia)

Young, George

Treatise on Opium

Young, John

Yu Te-ch'ang (pimp)

Yuan Shi-k'ai, President

Yugoslavia

Yung Cheng, Emperor

Yunnan province

addiction

poppy farming

smuggling

Zambia

Zappa, Frank

Zhou Enlai

Zia, President

zombies, addicts compared to

Zurich

Also by Martin Booth

Fiction

Hiroshima Joe

The Jade Pavilion

Black Chameleon

Dreaming of Samarkand

A Very Private Gentleman

The Humble Disciple

The Iron Tree

Toys of Glass

Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy

 

Nonfiction

Carpet Sahib—A Life of Jim Corbett

The Triads

Rhino Road

The Dragon and the Pearl

 

Children's Books

War Dog

 

Edited Books

The Book of Cats
(with George MacBeth)

THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS
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An imprint of St. Martin's Press.

OPIUM: A HISTORY
. Copyright © 1996 by Martin Booth. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Booth, Martin.

Opium : a history / Martin Booth.

p. cm.

Originally published: London : Simon & Schuster Ltd., 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-312-20667-4 ISBN: 978-0-312-20667-3

1. Opium habit—History. 2. Opium trade—History. I. Title.

HV5816.B66   1998

615'.32335—dc21

98-14851

CIP

First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster Ltd.