
The Dark History of London’s Drug World
From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 3/11/2025

From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 3/11/2025
Travel back to post-WW1 London, when sex, drugs and music was exploding in Soho... causing a national moral panic.The drugs of choice? Cocaine and morphine. Still used by doctors for questionable medicinal reasons (cough syrup anyone?!) but now also taken in nightclubs and opium dens by socialites…

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