In Social History Society Bulletin, 24/1, Spring 1999, pages 65-66, Joseph Melling (University of Exeter) contributes an informative review of "the second republication" of Virginia Berridge, Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century England (London and New York: Free Association Books, 1999), available in cloth and paperback editions. The book combines a reprint of the original text and new material.