Museum helps television series on heroin
The museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has been involved in a series of television programmes about heroin, which were screened on Channel 4 this week under the title “Going cold turkey”.
As part of a season looking at addiction, Channel 4 commissioned a series
concentrating specifically on heroin, which was criminalised 50 years
ago this year. The Society’s museum assisted with research for
the series and the programmes included footage of opiates in the museum’s
collection and in the Science Museum’s Controlled Drugs collection,
which the Society’s museum looks after.
Briony Hudson, keeper of the museum collections, said: “Involvement
in this series has been an excellent way for the museum to use some of
its objects to mark an interesting anniversary. By chance, the new displays
that we are planning for the Society’s headquarters will include
a section that looks at the history of pain relief, so this will provide
an additional opportunity for people to see some of these items.
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